Many people, including myself, thought of Jobs as an inventor, an Edison-like figure, but he wasn't. I did a documentary on James… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
It's hard to make a living doing documentaries. Frankly, if it takes you five years to do a film, and that's the… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
Documentaries can embrace contradictions in a way that journalism can't. — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
The message films that try to be message films always fail. Likewise with documentaries. The documentaries that work best are the ones… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
Critics can say what they like about the films, but very often, there's a certain expectation of documentaries that they're supposed to… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
Many people, including myself, thought of Jobs as an inventor, an Edison-like figure, but he wasn't. I did a documentary on James Brown recently;… — Alex Gibney Copy Share
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… — Alex Gibney Copy Share
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… — Alex Gibney Copy Share
With every project I start out on, there's no footage. It's always a big slog to find the footage. — Alex Gibney Copy Share
Bill Gates, who is the classic computer nerd, as opposed to Steve who is, like the coolest guy in the world. And who is… — Alex Gibney Copy Share
If people are portrayed as monsters, we become disconnected from them, and to me that is not remotely interesting. — Alex Gibney Copy Share
Even with a villain, you don't want him just to be some pockmarked punchbag. — Alex Gibney Copy Share
You see the natural progression of what happens when the executive gets power and then a new executive comes in. The new executive doesn't… — Alex Gibney Copy Share
The Barack Obama Administration has prosecuted more whistleblowers than all previous administrations combined. That's a staggering record. And it comes from a president who… — Alex Gibney Copy Share
In the case of the Catholic Church, it's hard to understand how they so willfully sacrifice the children. — Alex Gibney Copy Share
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… — Alex Gibney Copy Share
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… — Alex Gibney Copy Share
I'm a sports junkie, and I am interested in athletic will - how you exceed the expectations of your own performance when it counts… — Alex Gibney Copy Share
To get discounts on some drugs, private insurers are willing to pay top prices for blockbuster pharmaceuticals like Vioxx, despite the fact that Vioxx… — Alex Gibney Copy Share
The sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church is the result of what police call "noble cause corruption," the belief that because you are… — Alex Gibney Copy Share
