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

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.

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.

The springboard for your success is between your ears.

Sometimes two people will regard each other over a gulf too wide to ever be bridged, and know immediately what could have happened, and that it never will.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

This is the only place that I don't feel out of place, because everyone here is out of place.

It is a foolish man who believes that the status quo can be maintained indefinitely.

Love is a pig dressed as a clown sitting in a bath full of beans: pretty much amazing, once you get over the shock.

My fans expect me to be great and keep being great.

Charm is the ability to make others forget that you look as you do.

Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends - they will never go out of fashion.

I wasnt particularly funny in high school, but I grew up with three older brothers who were quite funny.