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Long ago I had a professor who told me, 'Embrace the contradictions.' I think that is what is most interesting about people like Jobs.

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Alex Gibney
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: October 23
Film Director
Film Producer
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New York City
New York
Philip Alexander Alex Gibney
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Whether or not he came to believe it - so many people, when they have a mission, come to believe something in a way that may have started out as a slogan. You know, L. Ron Hubbard, not to make a random comparison, started Scientology as a scam.
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I'm still an Apple person, but let's just say the magic aura is gone. In a way that was a sad thing to lose, but I feel better for it. It's just a machine now, not linked with any greater mission or mystique.
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I feel that Julian Assange came to be both paranoid and self-regarding in ways that ultimately undermined his own mission.
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As a filmmaker, I always took my inspiration from a filmmaker named Marcel Ophüls, who said, I always have a point of view, but the trick is showing how hard it is to come to that point of view.
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In many ways, I'm a big admirer still of Julian Assange. He had balls to do what he did and his motivations in terms of holding the powerful to account are tremendously inspiring to me.
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It's easy to get armchair analysts to talk, but to get people on the inside to talk is very, very hard.
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What a terrible world it would be if we only did films that were poster boards for political causes.
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The Church must be all-powerful. You discover these horrors within institutions because predators find ways of hiding in plain sight.
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I think many articles in the New Yorker have a strong point of view, but they are so rigorously fact-checked. I wouldn't call them objective, but they feel fair.
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Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and senators to be bought and sold like sneakers.
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Steve Jobs was one of the first people to understand that the computer wasn't just a tool, but that it could be an extension of ourselves, and he positioned Apple that way. The iPod was this revolutionary device with the idea of 1,000 songs in your pocket, and then that machine represents who you are.
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If people are portrayed as monsters, we become disconnected from them, and to me that is not remotely interesting.
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The stuff about film being a collaborative medium is no joke.
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The sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church is the result of what police call noble cause corruption, the belief that because you are dedicated to doing good, you can do no wrong.
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As the power of governments wanes, corporations become ever more powerful. Sometimes they do things that aren't so good. We should pay attention. Steve Jobs was saying, Don't pay attention to all that stuff. Pay attention to the product you've got in your hand.
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In a busy world, even as information is moving so rapidly, we have to learn who to trust in that regard even as we ourselves have to become more critical of the people who we want to trust. It's a weird situation.
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You can't expect the institution to learn, if it doesn't accept any sense of justice.
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Suicides aren't heroic in my opinion. And I don't think anybody ever really knows why somebody commits suicide.
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In the case of the Catholic Church, it's hard to understand how they so willfully sacrifice the children.
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