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.

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

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.

I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.

I will say yes to every favor, request, suggestion and invitation. I will swear to say yes where once I would say no.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared.

for most of us the space between 'dreaming on things to come' and 'it is too late, it is all over' is too tiny to enter.

Love was like a steamroller. There was no avoiding it; it went over you and you came out flat.

The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'.

As we become curators of our own contentment on the Simple Abundance path... we learn to savor the small with a grateful heart.

Democracy will never be supplanted by a republic of experts—and that is a very good thing.

That dreams have power only over your own mind. But with money you can have power over the minds of others