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
justice accepting institutions
You can't expect the institution to learn, if it doesn't accept any sense of justice.
sneakers democracy fundamentals
Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and senators to be bought and sold like sneakers.
people easy armchairs
It's easy to get armchair analysts to talk, but to get people on the inside to talk is very, very hard.
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.
stuff film mediums
The stuff about film being a collaborative medium is no joke.
mutants world tradition
I come from a filmmaking tradition and a storytelling background. So somehow I've emerged like a mutant who can straddle both worlds.
strong thinking views
I think many articles in the New Yorker have a strong point of view, but they are so rigorously fact-checked. I wouldn't call them objective, but they feel fair.
inspiration views said
As a filmmaker, I always took my inspiration from a filmmaker named Marcel Ophüls, who said, "I always have a point of view, but the trick is showing how hard it is to come to that point of view."
likes documentaries
No one likes documentaries.
projects bigs
With every project I start out on, there's no footage. It's always a big slog to find the footage.
drawn figure power seem stop stories sure tend
I'm not sure why, but I seem to be drawn to stories about abuses of power. But I'm also drawn, not so much to victims' stories, as stories that tend to show how power works. Because if you don't understand the criminals, you can't figure out how to stop the crimes.
audiences explore seduced
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.'
battle bit cables caution future good journalism wikileaks
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 a good thing, as some of the WikiLeaks cables proved.
allowed appalled encourages furious level money nations permits subvert wealthy
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 very wealthy nation, permits and even encourages a level of poverty that other wealthy nations would not even consider.