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.

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 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.

Hope may seem frail. But in the face of adversity, hope can be our strongest ally.

No matter how great the love, the pain, the sadness, the power of a heart, no one can recreate the sea. Nowhere else.

You have so many relationship-worthy qualities. Either the guys around here are complete idiots or you’ve never shown them the real you.

You can't put this possum in a cage

Unless you work in demolition, don't burn bridges.

Stately as a galleon, I sail across the floor,Doing the military two-step, as in the days of yore.

Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life, - there, if one must speak out, the real man.

I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.

The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise on anything except airports and exotic foods.

Waiting for the conspiracy theorists to tell the truth is a little like leaving the front-porch light on for Jimmy Hoffa.