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 can ask someone to let me into all aspects of their life for several years, but people have got to have that gift: that courage and that talent for opening their lives to the camera. Being candid is a… — 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… — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
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… — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
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
I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work. — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
I am so picky about what films I get myself into because it's such an explosion of energy and commitment once you get in… — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
Why is nobody questioning the sanity or suicidal tendencies of Everest ascenders? It's kind of a question of framing: How do you frame these… — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
