Quotes by Alex Gibney

About Alex Gibney:

Philip Alexander "Alex" Gibney is an American documentary film director and producer. In 2010, Esquire magazine said Gibney "is becoming the most important documentarian of our time".
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Why do we even need WikiLeaks? They're not the only organization that publishes leaks. And they don't have some special technology that allows them to post on the Internet with mirrored sites. The idea of WikiLeaks lives on, but as an organization, i...

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Critics can say what they like about the films, but very often, there's a certain expectation of documentaries that they're supposed to be like PowerPoint presentations. I see documentaries as movies. So when I see some critics writing that we could ...

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In the case of 'Zero Dark Thirty,' about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, an issue that is central to the film - torture - is so important that I feel I must say something. Mark Boal and Kathryn Bigelow have been irresponsible and inaccurate in the way ...

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Even with a villain, you don't want him just to be some pockmarked punchbag.

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Documentaries can embrace contradictions in a way that journalism can't.

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There are many people, including me, who admire the original mission of WikiLeaks.

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We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wrong thing. So ends can justify the means.

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It's hard to make a living doing documentaries. Frankly, if it takes you five years to do a film, and that's the only film you're doing, you're in trouble.

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I thought it was a classic David and Goliath story, and I was fully onboard Team WikiLeaks. I was very pro the leaks, barring the redaction issue. But I see WikiLeaks as a publisher.

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It would be hard to go to your neighbor and say the things people say on the Internet without getting punched out or having your tires slashed.

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Dialogue between people of differing views is critical for fostering understanding in a democracy.

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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. And so, the transparency radical became a secret-keeper instead of a secret-leaker. And that, I think, is a big problem.

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When it comes to governments and corporations, we should demand that less is secret. That's where corruption flowers.

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I would tell filmmakers: 'Don't just be seduced by the same old, same old. There are interesting things you can explore that may get your film out there to audiences better than the traditional distribution mechanisms.'

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You have to assume once you go online, anything you put there can be made public. Yet while you're online, you feel like it's a private, sacred space. But you're really broadcasting to the world.

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'24' glamorizes torture. I don't think there's any other way of putting it.

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Many people have this memory of traditional TV documentary-making that aims to portray pure reality, and I just don't see that as the only option.

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Here's where the insurance companies really fail us. They over-pay hospitals, specialists and drug companies and then raise premiums to cover the costs. Further, when they pay hospitals 115% of what it should cost to care for a patient, they are payi...

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Wikileaks in its essence is a publisher, pure and simple. They were very much in the same position as 'The New York Times' and 'The Guardian.'

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Insurance companies pay big bucks for procedures but next to nothing for patient consultations and preventive medicine, which is what most medicine is.

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Now, unfortunately, some prissy card-carrying members of the U.S. Constitution have made us all look bad by pointing out that many of the Gitmo detainees weren't guilty of anything. Whoops!

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Author Bio

  • NameAlex Gibney
  • DescriptionAmerican film director and producer
  • BornOctober 23, 1953
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Screenwriter; Film Producer
  • AwardsWriters Guild Of America Award; Emmy Award