- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard to make a living doing documentaries. Frankly, if it takes you five years to do a film, and that's the only film you're doing, you're in trouble.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why do we even need WikiLeaks? They're not the only organization that publishes leaks. And they don't have some special technology that allows them to post on the Internet with mirrored sites. The idea of WikiLeaks lives on, but as an organization, it's become increasingly irrelevant.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Differing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dialogue between people of differing views is critical for fostering understanding in a democracy.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Pure
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we were working on 'Taxi to the Dark Side,' we would purposefully not show it to certain people in the cutting room, because we would include a lot of horrible material and would need a fresh pespective. They would look at us and say, 'Are you out of your minds? You can't include that!'
- Broken
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- Nov 07, 2020
The message films that try to be message films always fail. Likewise with documentaries. The documentaries that work best are the ones that eschew a simple message for an odd angle. I found that one of the most spectacular films about the Middle East was 'Waltz With Bashir,' or 'The Gatekeepers,' or '5 Broken Cameras.'
- Flowers
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to governments and corporations, we should demand that less is secret. That's where corruption flowers.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Film
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- Nov 07, 2020