In many ways, I'm a big admirer still of Julian Assange. He had balls to do what he did and his motivations in terms of holding the powerful to account are tremendously inspiring to me.
Alex GibneyI feel that Julian Assange came to be both paranoid and self-regarding in ways that ultimately undermined his own mission.
Alex GibneyWhether or not he came to believe it - so many people, when they have a mission, come to believe something in a way that may have started out as a slogan. You know, L. Ron Hubbard, not to make a random comparison, started Scientology as a scam.
Alex Gibney