Alex Gibney

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

Jobs' incredible skill was as a storyteller, a salesman. He could captivate our imaginations and reel us in. He was more P.T.…

— Alex Gibney

The internet connects us all and provides this fabulous fact-checking mechanism, and yet at the same time, the power of lies is…

— Alex Gibney

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

— Alex Gibney

Bill Gates, who is the classic computer nerd, as opposed to Steve who is, like the coolest guy in the world. And…

— Alex Gibney

If people are portrayed as monsters, we become disconnected from them, and to me that is not remotely interesting.

— Alex Gibney

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

— Alex Gibney

You see the natural progression of what happens when the executive gets power and then a new executive comes in. The new…

— Alex Gibney

The Barack Obama Administration has prosecuted more whistleblowers than all previous administrations combined. That's a staggering record. And it comes from a…

— Alex Gibney

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

— Alex Gibney

I feel that Julian Assange came to be both paranoid and self-regarding in ways that ultimately undermined his own mission. And so,…

— Alex Gibney

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

I'm a sports junkie, and I am interested in athletic will - how you exceed the expectations of your own performance when…

— Alex Gibney

To get discounts on some drugs, private insurers are willing to pay top prices for blockbuster pharmaceuticals like Vioxx, despite the fact…

— Alex Gibney

The sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church is the result of what police call "noble cause corruption," the belief that because…

— Alex Gibney

Whether or not he came to believe it - so many people, when they have a mission, come to believe something in…

— Alex Gibney

Jesus Christ never preached there should be celibate priests. The only reason the church has this is because it's a mechanism of…

— Alex Gibney

I think the future of journalism is going to be a battle between caution and recklessness. And I think a little bit…

— Alex Gibney

As the power of governments wanes, corporations become ever more powerful. Sometimes they do things that aren't so good. We should pay…

— Alex Gibney

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

— Alex Gibney

The whole macho thing has to be reexamined. Because in my view, the Bush administration was weak, not strong. To engage in…

— Alex Gibney

There are all sorts of inventive ways to get your film out there: sometimes via the Internet, sometimes via viral screenings in…

— Alex Gibney

As a filmmaker, I always took my inspiration from a filmmaker named Marcel Ophüls, who said, "I always have a point of…

— Alex Gibney

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

— Alex Gibney

It's easy to get armchair analysts to talk, but to get people on the inside to talk is very, very hard.

— Alex Gibney