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

The world of extreme sports is also one of the big businesses. Kids might think that snowboarding is the ultimate freedom, but this freedom is being marketed to them by commercial sponsors.

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

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

I love great locations in movies, and I couldn't believe I'd never seen a landfill on screen before. It was the most haunting place.

I don't believe in objectivity. I observe the observer's paradox every moment I'm filming. Your presence is changing everything; there's no mistaking it. And you have a responsibility.

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.

The world needs more women filmmakers, so we have to keep encouraging ourselves and one another, and eventually things must get easier for us.

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

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.

Knowledge is courage understanding brings calmness and humility

Maybe the secret to continued success is as simple as knowing that your past successes could be done so much better now.

Every beautiful thing that life has to offer, demands the habit of relentlessness.

When every piece falls into place, it's like a dance, a delicate but powerful balancing act. The art of holding on and letting go at the same time.

Ron Powlus will win the Heisman two times and be the greatest quarterback in the history of Notre Dame.

The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.

Can it really be said that before the day of our pretentious science, humanity was composed solely of imbeciles and the superstitious?

You can set your intention to better understand your soul, your spirit, through daily practices like prayer, yoga and meditation, etc.

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.