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.

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.

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.

Red was ruby, green was fluorescent, yellow was simply incandescent. Color was life. Color was everything.Color, you see, was the universal sign of magic.

I pulled myself back before wind could knock me down. I survived the wind and my own person.

If I know I'm going crazy, I must not be insane.

But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country.

There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.

Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.

Economy has frequently nothing whatever to do with the amount of money being spent, but with the wisdom used in spending it.

There are so many examples of talented actors working today, no matter how they live their private lives. I'm lucky that people believe me when I'm in character.

I have no idea what the next project will be and if there's a next project. I don't even know if we're all going to be here tomorrow, but I'm pretty optimistic.

I'm Sinatra, I'm Frank Sinatra in disguise.