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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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Alex Gibney
Age: 70
Born: 1953
Born: October 23
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
New York City
New York
Philip Alexander Alex Gibney
Philip Alexander Gibney
Disconnected
Monsters
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People
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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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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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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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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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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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