Alex Gibney Quotes

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• Every film is faced with the enemy of time. Only so much story can fit into the 90-150 minutes of time that moviegoers are willing…
• The Bush administration will go down in history as the Torture Team.
• The fact is that viewers are getting used to watching media on a variety of platforms. Trailers look good on iPhones. Big-screen TVs and stereo…
• To get discounts on some drugs, private insurers are willing to pay top prices for blockbuster pharmaceuticals like Vioxx, despite the fact that Vioxx was…
• Insurance companies pay big bucks for procedures but next to nothing for patient consultations and preventive medicine, which is what most medicine is.
• There are many people, including me, who admire the original mission of WikiLeaks.
• 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…
• I think of my films as not necessarily political but more moral. Between my father, my stepfather, and my mother - they all felt pretty…
• 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…
• 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…
• I am furious at the way that we have allowed money to subvert our democracy. I am appalled at the way that the U.S., a…
• Dialogue between people of differing views is critical for fostering understanding in a democracy.
• 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…
• I remember when I did my Enron film, my executive producers at the time felt very strongly that I should mock the Enron executives more…
• I think the future of journalism is going to be a battle between caution and recklessness. And I think a little bit of recklessness is…
• Every film may not be appropriate for a theatrical release, and the theatrical business is not a very good business for anybody except the distributor.
• When I was a kid, I played sports a lot. My mom and dad were divorced, but I hung out in the neighborhood a lot,…
• Sports are the ultimate secular religion. Instead of being worried about whether your kids will be okay or how your job is going, you have…

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