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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

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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

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

~Alex Gibney

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In the case of 'Zero Dark Thirty,' about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, an issue that is central to the film - torture - is so important that I feel I must say something. Mark Boal and Kathryn Bigelow have been irresponsible and inaccurate in the way they have treated this issue in their film.

~Alex Gibney

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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

Topics: Accept Believe Bin Brutal End Go Good Got Guided Justify Means More Our Politicians Popular Prone Then Torture View War Will

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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

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When the producers of 'Why Poverty?' came to me to do a film about poverty in the United States, I asked if I could do a film about wealth instead. I tend to make films about perpetrators, rather than victims.

~Alex Gibney

Topics: About Asked Came Could Film Films If I Could Instead Make Me Poverty Producers Rather States Tend Than United United States Victims Wealth Why

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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

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

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In the U.S., hospitals are rewarded for keeping hospital beds full. That's the market at work. The question is: should we work for the market, or should the market work for us?

~Alex Gibney

Topics: Beds Full Hospital Hospitals Keeping Market Question Rewarded Should Us Work

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: October 23rd, 1953

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