Alex Gibney Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“It's difficult for one filmmaker to criticize another. That's a job best left to critics.”

“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.”

“The Bush administration will go down in history as the Torture Team.”

“The job of a journalist is to find out stuff. The job of the government - sometimes - is to keep stuff secret. There's a natural tension there.”

“Wikileaks in its essence is a publisher, pure and simple. They were very much in the same position as 'The New York Times' and 'The Guardian.'”

“Here's where the insurance companies really fail us. They over-pay hospitals, specialists and drug companies and then raise premiums to cover the costs. Further, when they pay hospitals 115% of what it should cost to care for a patient, they are paying for inefficiency that can be dangerous.”

“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.”

“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.'”

“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.”

“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.”