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.

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.

No one messes me around, I don't give second chances and I never waste tears over people who aren't worth it. I save them for the people who are.

We are always searching for a cave to fit in.

Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It's like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes.

Every age has its beautiful moments.

In L.A., being an actor is like a pastime, everybody there is like, "I was on this reality show; I'm an actor." It becomes a word that is loosely thrown around.

We'll be submitting healthcare sometime in early March [2017], mid March, and after that, we're going to come up, and we're doing very well on tax reform.

People will be engaged in your work if it is good, interesting or challenging.

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

As an expert, I can deal with complex problems. As a mother it is much, much harder.

I keep in touch with what's real.