Film Quotes by Lucy Walker

I remember when the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly intractable problems get solved.

— Lucy Walker

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I think we have become oversaturated with tired fictional narratives.

— Lucy Walker

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

I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work.

— Lucy Walker

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

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