Alex Gibney Quotes
With every project I start out on, there's no footage. It's always a big slog to find the footage.
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.
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."
If people are portrayed as monsters, we become disconnected from them, and to me that is not remotely interesting.
Long ago I had a professor who told me, 'Embrace the contradictions.' I think that is what is most interesting about people like Jobs.
What a terrible world it would be if we only did films that were poster boards for political causes.
The internet connects us all and provides this fabulous fact-checking mechanism, and yet at the same time, the power of lies is conveyed much more efficiently now because they're accepted so fast.
The Church must be all-powerful. You discover these horrors within institutions because predators find ways of hiding in plain sight.
Suicides aren't heroic in my opinion. And I don't think anybody ever really knows why somebody commits suicide.
In the case of the Catholic Church, it's hard to understand how they so willfully sacrifice the children.
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.
I feel that Julian Assange came to be both paranoid and self-regarding in ways that ultimately undermined his own mission.
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.
Bill Gates, who is the classic computer nerd, as opposed to Steve who is, like the coolest guy in the world. And who is really doing things to make the world a better place?
As the power of governments wanes, corporations become ever more powerful. Sometimes they do things that aren't so good. We should pay attention.
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.
It's easy to get armchair analysts to talk, but to get people on the inside to talk is very, very hard.
I come from a filmmaking tradition and a storytelling background. So somehow I've emerged like a mutant who can straddle both worlds.
Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and senators to be bought and sold like sneakers.
If you go in thinking that you're smarter than everyone else, you want in a learning very much. If you go in thinking, "I'd sure like to understand this better, " you end up doing precisely that.
For years, the Bush Administration eviscerated all the military and legal structures that were designed to separate the innocent from the guilty in the 'Global War on Terror.'
There's something magical about a home run. It almost violates the space of the stadium. It's a game of the imagination in some ways. Baseball.