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

Alex Gibney

Political, Boards, Would Be

Source: collider.com

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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.

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Lying, Fabulous, Facts

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In a busy world, even as information is moving so rapidly, we have to learn who to trust in that regard even as we ourselves have to become more critical of the people who we want to trust. It's a weird situation.

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Moving, People, World

"Director Alex Gibney Talks WE STEAL SECRETS: THE STORY OF WIKILEAKS and His Next Documentary LANCE ARMSTRONG: THE ROAD BACK". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 18, 2013.

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I'm still an Apple person, but let's just say the magic aura is gone. In a way that was a sad thing to lose, but I feel better for it. It's just a machine now, not linked with any greater mission or mystique.

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Feel Better, Apples, Magic

Source: www.sfgate.com

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

Alex Gibney

Jobs, Skills, Imagination

Source: www.sfgate.com

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

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People, Interesting, Monsters

Source: www.sfgate.com

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Steve Jobs was one of the first people to understand that the computer wasn't just a tool, but that it could be an extension of ourselves, and he positioned Apple that way. The iPod was this revolutionary device with the idea of 1,000 songs in your pocket, and then that machine represents who you are.

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Song, Jobs, Ideas

Source: www.sfgate.com

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Long ago I had a professor who told me, 'Embrace the contradictions.' I think that is what is most interesting about people like Jobs.

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Jobs, Thinking, Long Ago

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As the power of governments wanes, corporations become ever more powerful. Sometimes they do things that aren't so good. We should pay attention. Steve Jobs was saying, "Don't pay attention to all that stuff. Pay attention to the product you've got in your hand."

Alex Gibney

Hands, Attention, Pay

"Filmmaker Alex Gibney on Steve Jobs, storyteller". Interview with Michael O'Sullivan, www.washingtonpost.com. September 5, 2015.

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

Alex Gibney

Powerful, Government, Attention

Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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What made so many people so upset when Steve Jobs died was that he was a kind of combination of daddy - in this relationship between the machine and ourselves - and also he was our guide. He was the one who led us to look into the mirror. He created these devices that became extensions of ourselves. Suddenly, he wasn't going to hold our hand as we went from product to product, which became increasingly about who we were.

Alex Gibney

Jobs, Mirrors, Hands

Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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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.

Alex Gibney

Strong, Thinking, Views

Source: www.salon.com

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

Alex Gibney

People, Easy, Analysts

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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Born: October 23, 1953
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