Some documentaries are made by people who are driven more by one particular story, or have different backgrounds or ambitions, but I'm always looking for projects that let me be the best filmmaker I can be, and to be stretched… — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
I remember when the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly intractable problems get solved. — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
There are still people who have an issue working with a woman director. Women can be viewed as 'difficult' even though they work in… — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
There's a theory of accidents that I studied when I was making a film about nuclear weapons: you can never eliminate accidents, because the measures you introduce to prevent accidents actually produce more accidents. That's certainly true of this sport; you're flying over 40 feet of what might look like snow, but it's hard as ice, it's as hard as… — Lucy Walker Copy Share
I think we've reached that point where we understand medically what we are doing to ourselves with these sports. In football, it's kind of hard to get the access that you want for the story and, of course, it's very long-term: the effects of the repeat concussions really don't hit until decades afterwards, whereas the traumatic injuries in extreme sports… — Lucy Walker Copy Share
I find titles the hardest thing. I was worried that 'Waste Land' was too much of a downer. For me, 'The Crash Reel' confronts… — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
I can't help seeing 'Waste Land' as the third in a triptych with my earlier films 'Devil's Playground' and 'Blindsight,' and not least in… — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
With portable cameras and affordable data and non-linear digital editing, I think this is a golden age of documentary filmmaking. These new technologies mean… — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
I'm riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, 'megaramp' skateboarding and half-pipe snowboarding. I'm fascinated partly because the sports are so exhilaratingly acrobatic. But… — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't… — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
The world of extreme sports is also one of big business. Kids might think that snowboarding is the ultimate freedom, but this freedom is… — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
My main trick is to work with amazing people. It's a long and twisty journey, and you need people that really are amazing and… — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
