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Image, What a terrible world it would be if we only did films

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What a terrible world it would be if we only did films that were poster boards for political causes.

—Alex Gibney

Image, Whether or not he came to believe it – so many people,

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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.

—Alex Gibney

Image, As a filmmaker, I always took my inspiration from a filmmaker named

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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."

—Alex Gibney

Image, Suicides aren’t heroic in my opinion. And I don’t think anybody ever

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Suicides aren't heroic in my opinion. And I don't think anybody ever really knows why somebody commits suicide.

—Alex Gibney

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Image, Bill Gates, who is the classic computer nerd, as opposed to Steve

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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?

—Alex Gibney

Image, I feel that Julian Assange came to be both paranoid and self-regarding

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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.

—Alex Gibney

Image, The funny thing about being Catholic, and I was raised Catholic, is

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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.

—Alex Gibney

Image, In a busy world, even as information is moving so rapidly, we

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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.

—Alex Gibney

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Image, Steve Jobs did not start started Apple as a scam. But he

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Steve Jobs did not start 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. He believed in making people comfortable with these machines, which is why he spent so much time thinking about how to design them a certain way, how to make them so user-friendly and interactive, and why he spent so much time studying the Zeitgeist.

—Alex Gibney

Image, The sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church is the result of

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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.

—Alex Gibney

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The stuff about film being a collaborative medium is no joke.

—Alex Gibney

Image, Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and

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Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and senators to be bought and sold like sneakers.

—Alex Gibney

Image, I think many articles in the New Yorker have a strong point

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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.

—Alex Gibney

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Image, With every project I start out on, there’s no footage. It’s always

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With every project I start out on, there's no footage. It's always a big slog to find the footage.

—Alex Gibney

Image, In the case of the Catholic Church, it’s hard to understand how

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In the case of the Catholic Church, it's hard to understand how they so willfully sacrifice the children.

—Alex Gibney

Image, The Church must be all-powerful. You discover these horrors within institutions because

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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.

—Alex Gibney

Image, One of the things about Steve Jobs is that he gives us

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One of the things about Steve Jobs is that he gives us an opportunity to look at the disjuncture between that world and the world he claimed that Apple represented, the "Think different" world of Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks and Gandhi.