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The back must slave to feed the belly. — Michael Gibney

You can't expect the institution to learn, if it doesn't accept any sense of justice. — Alex Gibney

Gibney, we gotta win this fucking Tour de France. — Lance Armstrong

I don't consider myself a very good talker or writer but a pretty good filmmaker. — Alex Gibney

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

It would be hard to go to your neighbor and say the things people say on the Internet without getting punched out or having your tires slashed. — Alex Gibney

Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and senators to be bought and sold like sneakers. — Alex Gibney

The stuff about film being a collaborative medium is no joke. — Alex Gibney

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.' — Alex Gibney

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

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. — Alex Gibney

Documentaries can embrace contradictions in a way that journalism can't. — Alex Gibney

Even with a villain, you don't want him just to be some pockmarked punchbag. — Alex Gibney

In the case of the Catholic Church, it's hard to understand how they so willfully sacrifice the children. — Alex Gibney

The Church must be all-powerful. You discover these horrors within institutions because predators find ways of hiding in plain sight. — Alex Gibney

When it comes to governments and corporations, we should demand that less is secret. That's where corruption flowers. — Alex Gibney

I come from a filmmaking tradition and a storytelling background. So somehow I've emerged like a mutant who can straddle both worlds. — Alex Gibney

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. — Alex Gibney

No one likes documentaries. — Alex Gibney

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

Mum always taught us that compassion and kindness were the most important things in life, that it was better to be kind than right. — Rebecca Gibney

'24' glamorizes torture. I don't think there's any other way of putting it. — Alex Gibney

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

Dialogue between people of differing views is critical for fostering understanding in a democracy. — Alex Gibney

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

With every project I start out on, there's no footage. It's always a big slog to find the footage. — Alex Gibney

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

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

Suicides aren't heroic in my opinion. And I don't think anybody ever really knows why somebody commits suicide. — Alex Gibney

Sometimes you were better off not knowing, rather than finding yourself literally in the dark. — Patricia Gibney

There are many people, including me, who admire the original mission of WikiLeaks. — Alex Gibney