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'24' glamorizes torture. I don't think there's any other way of putting it.
~ Alex Gibney
Any
Any Other Way
Other
Putting
Think
Torture
Way
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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?
~ Alex Gibney
Across
American
American Dream
Angry
Avenue
Bronx
Chance
Could
Dream
Dying
Film
Five
Greater
Harlem
How
Infant
Intentionally
Just
Manhattan
Money
Park
Power
River
Than
Times
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Critics can say what they like about the films, but very often, there's a certain expectation of documentaries that they're supposed to be like PowerPoint presentations. I see documentaries as movies. So when I see some critics writing that we could have done without the recreations altogether - well, perhaps.
~ Alex Gibney
About
Altogether
Certain
Could
Critics
Documentaries
Done
Expectation
Films
I See
Like
Movies
Often
Perhaps
PowerPoint
Say
See
Some
Supposed
Very
Well
Without
Writing
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Dialogue between people of differing views is critical for fostering understanding in a democracy.
~ Alex Gibney
Between
Critical
Democracy
Dialogue
Fostering
People
Understanding
Views
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Documentaries can embrace contradictions in a way that journalism can't.
~ Alex Gibney
Contradictions
Documentaries
Embrace
Journalism
Way
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Even with a villain, you don't want him just to be some pockmarked punchbag.
~ Alex Gibney
Even
Him
Just
Some
Villain
Want
You
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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
Become
Bewildered
Characters
Does
Enemy
Every
Exclusion
Faced
Film
Fit
Minutes
Much
Naturally
Necessary
Only
Seats
Stay
Story
Time
Viewer
Willing
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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.
~ Alex Gibney
Anybody
Appropriate
Business
Every
Except
Film
Good
May
Release
Theatrical
Very
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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
Administration
Bush
Bush Administration
Designed
Global
Global War
Guilty
Innocent
Legal
Military
Separate
Structures
Terror
War
Were
Years
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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.
~ Alex Gibney
Care
Companies
Cost
Costs
Cover
Dangerous
Drug Companies
Fail
Further
Here
Hospitals
Inefficiency
Insurance
Insurance Companies
Patient
Pay
Paying
Raise
Really
Should
Specialists
Then
Us
Where
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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.
~ Alex Gibney
Allowed
Am
Appalled
Consider
Democracy
Encourages
Even
Furious
I Am
Level
Money
Nation
Nations
Other
Our
Permits
Poverty
Very
Way
Wealthy
Would
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I don't consider myself a very good talker or writer but a pretty good filmmaker.
~ Alex Gibney
Consider
Filmmaker
Good
Myself
Pretty
Pretty Good
Talker
Very
Writer
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I feel that Julian Assange came to be both paranoid and self-regarding in ways that ultimately undermined his own mission. And so, the transparency radical became a secret-keeper instead of a secret-leaker. And that, I think, is a big problem.
~ Alex Gibney
Became
Big
Big Problem
Both
Came
Feel
His
I Feel
I Think
Instead
Mission
Own
Paranoid
Problem
Radical
Think
Transparency
Ultimately
Undermined
Ways
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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
Because
Did
Enron
Everybody
Executive
Executives
Felt
Film
I Remember
Mock
Moment
More
Producers
Remember
Remember When
Should
Strongly
Time
Very
Wanted
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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
About
Abuse
Abuse Of Power
Between
Doing
Doing The Right Thing
Father
Felt
Films
I Think
Importance
Me
Moral
More
Mother
Motivates
Necessarily
None
Passionately
Political
Power
Pretty
Right
Right Thing
Standing
Standing Up
Stepfather
The Right Thing
Them
Thing
Think
Up
Were
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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.
~ Alex Gibney
A Good Thing
Battle
Between
Bit
Caution
Future
Going
Good
Good Thing
I Think
Journalism
Little
Little Bit
Proved
Some
Thing
Think
Wikileaks
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I thought it was a classic David and Goliath story, and I was fully onboard Team WikiLeaks. I was very pro the leaks, barring the redaction issue. But I see WikiLeaks as a publisher.
~ Alex Gibney
Classic
David
Fully
Goliath
I See
Issue
Leaks
Pro
Publisher
See
Story
Team
Thought
Very
Wikileaks
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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
Audiences
Better
Distribution
Explore
Film
Filmmakers
Get
Interesting
Interesting Things
Just
Just Be
May
Mechanisms
Old
Out
Same
Seduced
Tell
Than
Things
Traditional
Would
You
Your
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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
About
Accounting
Dig
Enron
Film
Good
I Can
Knew
Learner
Nothing
Started
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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
Am
Athletic
Beyond
Counts
Deliver
Exceed
Expectations
How
I Am
Interested
Own
Performance
Something
Sports
Will
Win
You
Your
Yourself
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