Alex Gibney's 'Musk' Has a Unique Perspective on Daddy Issues

I went deep into reading her blogs and also the article that she wrote for Marie Claire. You know, her ability to be a storyteller is actually quite profound precisely because she's reaching for a deeper truth. I think when Elon is a storyteller, he's actually reaching for fiction. He's reaching to mythologize in a way that undoes the truth, that steers us away from that kind of hard work of getting to the stuff that is really deep and painful because it's true. I am curious about your take on this because it's a question that I have had about Elon Musk: Does he actually believe what he's saying or is he knowingly lying? I think it's closer to the former, and I've dealt with a number of characters who are like this. Sam Harris in the film makes a distinction between liars and bullshitters, and liars, of course, have to assiduously keep track of the truth in order to know when and how they're lying. Bullshitters just say what comes to their mind.