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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 I'm also captivated by the fear that a terrible accident might happen at any moment. And accidents do happen.

From Lucy Walker

Extreme sports tricks are becoming increasingly complex, the courses ever more challenging and crashes all too common.

From 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 we can make complicated, beautifully crafted and cinematic films about real-life stories.

From Lucy Walker

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

From 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 the same way as men.

From Lucy Walker

I think we have become oversaturated with tired fictional narratives.

From Lucy Walker

I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.

From Lucy Walker

I love my work, apart from when it's driving me crazy. But I get to be interested in stuff and think like a filmmaker as I'm buzzing about the world and then see an opportunity to make a film, and then make it happen.

From 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 there, you destroy your life until you deliver these films. I never want to be in the position of making films that won't be a great use of 90 minutes of someone's life.

From 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 have this rare gift of honesty and courage and really open up.

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