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For years, the Bush Administration eviscerated all the military and legal structures that were designed to separate the innocent from the guilty in the 'Global War on Terror.'
- Alex Gibney
#Global
#Guilty
#Innocent
#Legal
#War
Insurance companies pay big bucks for procedures but next to nothing for patient consultations and preventive medicine, which is what most medicine is.
- Alex Gibney
#Big
#Insurance
#Medicine
#Next
#Nothing
Documentaries can embrace contradictions in a way that journalism can't.
- Alex Gibney
#Documentaries
#Embrace
#Journalism
#Way
When we were working on 'Taxi to the Dark Side,' we would purposefully not show it to certain people in the cutting room, because we would include a lot of horrible material and would need a fresh pespective. They would look at us and say, 'Are you out of your minds? You can't include that!'
- Alex Gibney
#Dark Side
#Dark
#Fresh
#Look
#People
The message films that try to be message films always fail. Likewise with documentaries. The documentaries that work best are the ones that eschew a simple message for an odd angle. I found that one of the most spectacular films about the Middle East was 'Waltz With Bashir,' or 'The Gatekeepers,' or '5 Broken Cameras.'
- Alex Gibney
#Best
#Broken
#Simple
#Try
#Work
When we go to war, our politicians will be guided by our popular will. And if we believe that torture 'got' bin Laden, then we will be more prone to accept the view that a good 'end' can justify brutal 'means.'
- Alex Gibney
#Believe
#Good
#Politicians
#View
#War
I'm a good learner. I can dig in. I knew nothing about mark-to-market accounting when I started the 'Enron' film.
- Alex Gibney
#Accounting
#Film
#Good
#I Can
#Nothing
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.
- Alex Gibney
#Film
#Moment
#More
#Remember
#Time
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 to stay in their seats. Naturally, compression is necessary. So are the exclusion and amalgamation of characters so that the viewer does not become bewildered.
- Alex Gibney
#Enemy
#Film
#Stay
#Story
#Time
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 tires slashed.
- Alex Gibney
#Go
#Hard
#Internet
#Neighbor
#People
When it comes to governments and corporations, we should demand that less is secret. That's where corruption flowers.
- Alex Gibney
#Corruption
#Flowers
#Secret
#Should
I would tell filmmakers: 'Don't just be seduced by the same old, same old. There are interesting things you can explore that may get your film out there to audiences better than the traditional distribution mechanisms.'
- Alex Gibney
#Better
#Film
#Interesting
#Old
#Tell
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.
- Alex Gibney
#Me
#Political
#Power
#The Right Thing
I'm a sports junkie, and I am interested in athletic will - how you exceed the expectations of your own performance when it counts to deliver something beyond yourself so that you can win.
- Alex Gibney
#Expectations
#I Am
#Performance
#Sports
#Will
#Win
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 justify the means.
- Alex Gibney
#Do The Right Thing
#Live
#Right
#World
'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?
- Alex Gibney
#American
#Angry
#Chance
#Money
#Power
#River
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