Alex Gibney Quotes

I love documentaries. It's actually my favorite medium of film.

I don't go to the movies because I don't like films.

Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.

I don't only watch football. I like films.

I've always been a fan of these travel shows and documentary series.

It's all movies for me. And besides, when you say documentaries, in my case, in most of these cases, means "feature film" in disguise.

I'm not much on sequels; I'm not much on remakes for the most part. I don't really like or dislike them.

For me, the distinction between documentaries and feature films is not so clear - my "documentaries" were largely scripted, rehearsed, and repeated, and have a lot of fantasy and concoction in them.

I hate movies. They're so boring. So tedious.

I, for one, personally like rom-coms, silly rom-coms, but at the same time, I also want to watch a documentary or an award-winning drama.

You don't necessarily need a script or actors to tell a compelling tale. Finding a person at a key moment in his life and rendering the truth as you see it - that's the truest form of drama.

I hate sequels.

Bollywood is just amazing.

A publisher friend of mine suggested that I write a book about my grandfather, who had just died. I had nothing else to fill my empty days with, so I started work on this book. While researching it - watching lots of movies, talking to moviemakers - I became interested in movies and started making documentaries.

Films are my first love.

Film fests are an opportunity to see different kinds of films that you usually don't get to watch. When I'm part of a jury, then I get to judge films, but otherwise I attend festivals to watch two or three films a day and network with a gathering of cinema lovers from all over.

For someone like me, making a documentary - I don't kid myself. There's no influence at all. What I do is entertainment. I would even say much the same about the column I write in 'The Sunday Times.'

At times doc filmmaking feels more rewarding creatively. Because you are creating something out of pure cinema - instead of narrative cinema, where you've got a script and a cast and you build from your foundation, whereas in documentary, you're building out of chaos.

I get bored very easily. I find most movies boring. I go to movies and ask, "How do they stay awake making this?"

I think that movies can help guide us through those experiences [the problems that are happening in our daily lives, the stresses between countries, the economy and global warming]. I think all art tries to grapple with, redefine, come to terms with, express what's happening now when it's working. You can be entertained, but you can also be stimulated to think about things.

No one likes anyone in the industry

I have always looked to movies and theatre for inspiration.

You can't tell by looking at a film-clip whether it is a drama or a documentary without knowing how it was produced.

Bizarrely funny... Rarely is a documentary as well attuned to its subject as Howard Brookner's BURROUGHS, which captures as much about the life, work and sensibility of its subject as its 86 minute format allows.

I've said that movies are the highest stakes make-believe game in the world, and this is truly the most highest stakes.