Alex Gibney
Alex Gibney
Philip Alexander "Alex" Gibneyis an American documentary film director and producer. In 2010, Esquire magazine said Gibney "is becoming the most important documentarian of our time"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth23 October 1953
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
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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 viciously because everybody wanted that moment.
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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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Oscar always opens up doors, especially the night of the Oscars. On that night, you hold that gold man, and it's like having Gandalf's staff. You can go anywhere and do anything. It's a talisman of such power.
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There are all sorts of inventive ways to get your film out there: sometimes via the Internet, sometimes via viral screenings in people's living rooms across the country.
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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.
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I come from a filmmaking tradition and a storytelling background. So somehow I've emerged like a mutant who can straddle both worlds.
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Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and senators to be bought and sold like sneakers.
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In many ways, I'm a big admirer still of Julian Assange. He had balls to do what he did and his motivations in terms of holding the powerful to account are tremendously inspiring to me.
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What a terrible world it would be if we only did films that were poster boards for political causes.
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Suicides aren't heroic in my opinion. And I don't think anybody ever really knows why somebody commits suicide.
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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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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, and it was all about sports. I would be out all day on the sand lot or on the hockey rink. My dad would take me to baseball games, but he worked so hard, and he would always fall asleep.
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Dialogue between people of differing views is critical for fostering understanding in a democracy.