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
stuff film mediums
The stuff about film being a collaborative medium is no joke.
opportunity peers festivals
What's great about the Sundance Film Festival is the festival takes over that town as it's intended to do. But, it's very focused on a lot of other filmmakers and distributors so it almost feels like, while they're a lot of so-called civilians there, it's an opportunity that you have to see, to show your stuff to the other folks, your peers really, and to get that reaction.
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Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and senators to be bought and sold like sneakers.
justice accepting institutions
You can't expect the institution to learn, if it doesn't accept any sense of justice.
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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.
sex police catholic
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.
lying fabulous facts
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 more efficiently now because they're accepted so fast.
motivation powerful balls
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.
self way missions
I feel that Julian Assange came to be both paranoid and self-regarding in ways that ultimately undermined his own mission.
political world causes
What a terrible world it would be if we only did films that were poster boards for political causes.
suicide thinking heroic
Suicides aren't heroic in my opinion. And I don't think anybody ever really knows why somebody commits suicide.
guy nerd world
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?
abuse felt films importance motivates none political power standing
I think of my films as not necessarily political but more moral. Between my father, my stepfather, and my mother - they all felt pretty passionately about the importance of standing up and doing the right thing, and none of them were suck-ups. What motivates me is usually abuse of power.
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'Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream' is an intentionally angry film. How could it not be when the chance of an infant dying is five times greater on the Bronx Park Avenue than on Manhattan's Park Avenue just across the Harlem River?