Hello, I'm Peter Kafka, and you're listening to Recode Media, a podcast where I sit down with the most interesting people in media and technology to understand what happens when those two things collide. Thank you for coming, Alex Gibney. Delighted to be here. You are a famous documentarian. So you're here to talk about your newest movie called Zero Days. You'll be able to see it in movie theater. You can probably watch it

day and date, I think, as well. Day and date on VOD, video on demand, and also iTunes and other

electronic media. Same day. It all comes out the same day, which I think is a really good idea.

You can decide how you want to watch it. This is one of the great things about consuming media in 2016, and particularly if you want to consume documentaries, and it turns out those things are closely tied, right? There's a media boom, there's a documentary boom. This all benefits you because you make a documentary every three months, two months? Well, I don't make them that fast, but I do work on a number at the same time.

But your output is astonishing.

People, let's rattle off some of your, you rattle off some of your films, so I don't get the names wrong.

Going clear.

That's the Scientology piece.

Steve Jobs, the man in the machine, taxi to the dark side, client nine, we steal secrets.

May I Maximo Coppah, silence in the house House of God. Sinatra special on HBO. James Brown. Mr. Dynamite was the name of the film. This is an incredible amount of stuff. This is literally the last few years, right? I mean, this is four or five years worth of movies. You probably are doing, what, three or four a year?

Not that many?

Not every year.

Otherwise, I wouldn't be here.

I'd be dead.

And then you have a production company, Jigsaw Productions, which also puts out stuff that you don't touch as well, right?

Yeah.

We have a company that, and we do a number of series.

We do have a series for CNN called Death Row Stories,

all about, you know, horrific death row cases. We have, we did a series, we're doing a series for

Amazon called New Yorker Presents about the New Yorker magazine. Are you making this many documentaries

because you can, because there's a market for them both both uh and let's face

that there was a period where i you know i couldn't make any documentaries i was sitting in a small

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