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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.
Alex Gibney
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Alex Gibney
Age: 70
Born: 1953
Born: October 23
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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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I come from a filmmaking tradition and a storytelling background. So somehow I've emerged like a mutant who can straddle both worlds.
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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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The funny thing about being Catholic, and I was raised Catholic, is that you identify with the Church, just as part of your character. Nevermind what you believe, it's just who you are.
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I don't think Steve [Jobs] started Apple as a scam. But he understood early on the power of marketing. The idea of the computer as a bicycle for the human mind - I think that was something he believed.
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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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Jobs' incredible skill was as a storyteller, a salesman. He could captivate our imaginations and reel us in. He was more P.T. Barnum than Thomas Edison.
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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.
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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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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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What a terrible world it would be if we only did films that were poster boards for political causes.
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The stuff about film being a collaborative medium is no joke.
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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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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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If people are portrayed as monsters, we become disconnected from them, and to me that is not remotely interesting.
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