In his new documentary, "Client 9", and focused his lens Gibney of disgraced former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, who was tried many companies and Wall Street chieftains of sins when he was Attorney General of the State.
But in 2008, the media revealed Spitzer's hiring of prostitutes. The investigation by the federal government, although not charged with a crime, and he resigned from the post of governor of the state. Once considered one on the road to the presidency of the United States, except in the recent Spitzer appearing as the host of a talk show CNN.
Sat Gibney's access to an interview with Reuters news agency Spitzer, and "Client 9" who started playing in U.S. theaters on Friday.
Q: I have conducted interviews with many of the major players in the scandal, including Spitzer. Were eager to speak?
A: "early, immediately after the scandal broke, especially his enemies only too happy to dance on his political grave, so we got a lot of these men, which was great because it was very explicit. And was very open. He did not give you some sense of conflict that may occur in New York over a period of years. then ... We are having the federal government said it would not prosecute, and he went slowly in the Spitzer, said: 'Oh, we're going to do this anyway, Peter Elkind is writing the book, and I am doing film. with the passage of time, and he agreed. "
He said that ever say that he thought to do "client 9", or similar projects, may help to rid him in the eyes of the public: a question?
A: "He did not put it that way. I'm sure that there is some kind of account. I think it was something more like this:" Look, these guys are going to do anyway. Maybe they will do the job reasonably fair. It's probably in my interest to cooperate because otherwise they will not hear my point of view. "
He did not know you had enemies on the tape as well: Q?.
A: "I think he did not know we were going to get it and, over time, and I an interview with him - it's in fact four interviews - the people know we had. I think that was motivation, too. This is the motivation is always for me. If you I know my enemy is speaking, and I want to raise my voice. "
Q: He compares himself to Icarus, the boy in Greek mythology who flew in the vicinity of the sun on wings of wax. Agree?
A: "I was smiling when he said that. Only to compare yourself to Icarus shows a certain amount of arrogance. At the same time, I think his story is the story of arrogance, and got reckless. I got and went away. He believed that he was all powerful. I think everybody is wondering what the hell he was thinking. so he does not know exactly, or can not express exactly what he was thinking. but it should take too large a dose of arrogance to imagine that he could get away with what he was trying to get away with, so that some of the world's most influence in the world to be tried looking for any slip. "
Q: Right, so this is a mythological story, a story as old as politics itself. Then, what is new about the Spitzer story?
A: "I do not think it is all that is new about this subject. I think it's one of those stories we get never enough ... It's like saying: What's new on the love story? People fall in love. We all fall in love, but the truth is that we all want to see that story. This is the story of the rise and fall, and this spectacular rise and dramatic reduction and the status of is sex and marriage, and also, like men, veterans, and beating each other up on the ground. It is a story not unmatched. "
Q: Why do not you get these men? The truth is, they are all strong, but they are not above the law.
A: "I think they are more like us than you can imagine. The only thing that separates between them and us is to have a tremendous amount of energy, which sometimes give the license for them to do things that probably can not do because we do not have this kind of power."
Q: "Client 9" has a lot of twists and turns that seem to be in prostitution, and greed on Wall Street and the abuse of power in Washington. What are the masses to take away from this story?
A: "We are all human. We have to be better, I think, for all the weaknesses of our tolerant's human, but also to hold our officials of public and business leaders have to calculate the High Commissioner for doing in public places. There can not learn the lessons here are simple, because these things complicated ... It's not that simple to say that Eliot Spitzer was a good man, and now he is a bad man. The truth is he's a very good, in my opinion, in terms of what to do from the standpoint of public policy, which has stumbled, bad to some extent. in Indeed, it was free fall. "
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