6 Quotes & Sayings By Alex Gibney

Alex Gibney is an Emmy-nominated director and producer of multiple documentary, narrative and animated films. He is a three-time Academy Award nominee and winner of the Sundance Institute Directing Award. His first two films, Bill Cunningham New York (2003) and Taxi to the Dark Side (2007), both received Academy Award nominations for Best Documentary. Taxi to the Dark Side was nominated for an Emmy award in 2007 as Outstanding Informational Special Read more

In 2008, Bully: The Case Against Bullying won an Emmy Award as Outstanding Documentary (Half-Hour). Gibney is also a prominent researcher of historical topics ranging from political corruption to the JFK assassination. He has been interviewed by Larry King on his Ora TV show and has been featured on numerous national television programs, including 60 Minutes and Dateline NBC, and has written for The New York Times, Vanity Fair and Newsweek.

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If you go in thinking that you're smarter than everyone else, you want in a learning very much. If you go in thinking, "I'd sure like to understand this better, " you end up doing precisely that. Alex Gibney
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The whole macho thing has to be reexamined. Because in my view, the Bush administration was weak, not strong. To engage in a policy of torture is a weak policy. Because ultimately, it encourages the terrorists. It undermines our own values. It corrupts our system. And it doesn't get good intelligence. Alex Gibney
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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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There's something magical about a home run. It almost violates the space of the stadium. It's a game of the imagination in some ways. Baseball. Alex Gibney
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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