Afterlife Quote by Gary Hustwit

Hosting the Olympic Games of course guarantees the world's attention, but there is more to it than simply bathing in the global spotlight. Most…

— Eduardo Paes

Every city and country just has a different reason for wanting to host the [Olympic] games.

— Gary Hustwit

I think any city that does the Olympics takes on the world and has to grow and has to kind of assimilate all sorts…

— Laurence Fishburne

So many people that we met had some sort of connection to the [Olympics] games. Some story about how they volunteered there, or some…

— Gary Hustwit

Smaller cities, places like Sarajevo, for example, even amid all that destruction there's still so much pride that the [Olympic] games were there and…

— Gary Hustwit

In some bigger cities, I don't think people really realize these structures were built for the Olympics.

— Gary Hustwit

As it happens, I have personally been something of an enthusiast for the London Olympic games, mainly on the grounds a) that a bit…

— Evan Davis

There are good reasons for not wanting to host the Olympics. The Games can be costly and, in spite of their patriotic overtones, can…

— Mary Pilon

The Olympics is all about inclusion, coming together for sport. That's the footprint I want to leave.

— Gus Kenworthy

Every Olympics, they make a big deal out of something - security... traffic... pollution... something - and it really doesn't come true. For me,…

— Jim Boeheim

Many people are going to use [Beijing National Stadium], which makes it more meaningful. If we don't design it, somebody else has to design…

— Ai Weiwei

We were talking to shop owners or ordinary people who were living in these buildings now. A lot of the Olympic Villages were turned…

— Gary Hustwit