Quotes by Lucy Walker - Page 1

I think we have become oversaturated with tired fictional narratives.
Lucy Walker / Film Producer
Tired
Fictional
Narratives
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I remember when the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly intractable problems get solved.
Lucy Walker / Film Producer
Berlin
Berlin Wall
Remember
Remember When
Wall
Fell
Intractable
Solved
Suddenly
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Extreme sports tricks are becoming increasingly complex, the courses ever more challenging and crashes all too common.
Lucy Walker / Film Producer
Sports
Becoming
Challenges
Common
Courses
Extreme Sports
Tricks
Extreme
Challenging
Complex
Crashes
Increasingly
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I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work.
Lucy Walker / Film Producer
Challenges
Challenging Myself
Fiction
Nonfiction
Love Work Hope
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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.
Lucy Walker / Film Producer
Believe
Haunting
Location
Love Great Movies
Landfill
Locations
Screen
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I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.
Lucy Walker / Film Producer
Documentaries
Fiction
Filmmaker
Filmmaking
Way
Always Way Doing
Direction
Heading
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The world needs more women filmmakers, so we have to keep encouraging ourselves and one another, and eventually things must get easier for us.
Lucy Walker / Film Producer
Encouraging
Easier
Needs
World
Eventually
Filmmakers
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There are still people who have an issue working with a woman director. Women can be viewed as 'difficult' even though they work in the same way as men.
Lucy Walker / Film Producer
Work Women Men
Viewed
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The world of extreme sports is also one of big business. Kids might think that snowboarding is the ultimate freedom, but this freedom is being marketed to them by commercial sponsors.
Lucy Walker / Film Producer
Sports
Big Business
Extreme Sports
Might
Snowboarding
Sponsors
Ultimate
Extreme
Commercial
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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.
Lucy Walker / Film Producer
Believe
Objectivity
Paradox
Responsibility
Filming
Observe
Presence
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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.
Lucy Walker / Film Producer
Journey
Honesty
Long
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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.
Lucy Walker / Film Producer
Courage
Journey
Amazing People
Honesty
Rare
Trick
Main
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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.
Lucy Walker / Film Producer
Kids
Sports
Thinking
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I love my work, apart from when it's driving me crazy. But I get to be interested in stuff and think like a filmmaker as I'm buzzing about the world and then see an opportunity to make a film, and then make it happen.
Lucy Walker / Film Producer
Opportunity
Crazy
Filmmaker
Make It Happen
Thinking
World
Love Work Opportunity
Apart
Buzzing
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I have always been interested in garbage: What it says about us. What in there embarrasses us, and what we can't bear to part with. Where it goes and how much of it there is. How it endures. What it might be like to work with it every day.
Lucy Walker / Film Producer
Bears
Garbage
Might
Work Day Every Day
Work Always Where
Work Always Day
Bear
Endures
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Some documentaries are made by people who are driven more by one particular story, or have different backgrounds or ambitions, but I'm always looking for projects that let me be the best filmmaker I can be, and to be stretched and grow further.
Lucy Walker / Film Producer
Ambition
Backgrounds
Different
Different Backgrounds
Documentaries
Driven
Filmmaker
People
Projects
Best Always Me
Best Me Grow
Further
Stretched
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With portable cameras and affordable data and non-linear digital editing, I think this is a golden age of documentary filmmaking. These new technologies mean we can make complicated, beautifully crafted and cinematic films about real-life stories.
Lucy Walker / Film Producer
Age
Technology
Affordable
Cameras
Cinematic
Complicated
Data
Digital
Editing
Filmmaking
Golden
Golden Age
Mean
Real
Stories
Beautifully
Crafted
Documentary
Films
New Technologies
Portable
Technologies
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I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better.
Lucy Walker / Film Producer
People
Secret
Truth Is
Years
Apart
Directing
Work Truth Me
Secrets
Twenty
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I find titles the hardest thing. I was worried that 'Waste Land' was too much of a downer. For me, 'The Crash Reel' confronts what the film is about: it's not just about the reality of a crash, it's about the extremity we all face, and what happens when life crashes on you.
Lucy Walker / Film Producer
Crash
Extremity
Hardest Thing
Land
Reality
Titles
Waste
Worried
Downer
The Hardest Thing
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I am so picky about what films I get myself into because it's such an explosion of energy and commitment once you get in there, you destroy your life until you deliver these films. I never want to be in the position of making films that won't be a great use of 90 minutes of someone's life.
Lucy Walker / Film Producer
Commitment
Energy
Minutes
Picky
Position
Life Great Myself
Deliver
Destroy
Explosion
Films
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I'm riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, 'megaramp' skateboarding and half-pipe snowboarding. I'm fascinated partly because the sports are so exhilaratingly acrobatic. But I'm also captivated by the fear that a terrible accident might happen at any moment. And accidents do happen.
Lucy Walker / Film Producer
Captivated
Extreme Sports
Fascinated
Skateboarding
Snowboarding
Surfing
Accident
Extreme
Partly
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I am riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, 'megaramp' skateboarding and half pipe snowboarding. I am fascinated partly because the sports are so exhilaratingly acrobatic. But I am also captivated by the fear that a terrible accident might happen at any moment. And accidents do happen.
Lucy Walker / Film Producer
Sports
Snowboarding
Surfing
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I can't help seeing 'Waste Land' as the third in a triptych with my earlier films 'Devil's Playground' and 'Blindsight,' and not least in the awe and gratitude I feel for the group of people who were courageous enough to share their stories with us - and to live lives so rich in inspiration for us all.
Lucy Walker / Film Producer
Awe
Courageous
Gratitude
Inspiration
Live Life
Rich
Share
Waste
Earlier
Group
Playground
Third
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I'm not an expert on how to configure the sport, but I can observe and say that accidents seem to be a part of it. The athletes are incredible, with the courage that they accept the risk of death, paralysis, and brain injury. These are really life-changing, life-threatening injuries, and the risk is extremely high.
Lucy Walker / Film Producer
Sports
Athlete
Risk
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Why is nobody questioning the sanity or suicidal tendencies of Everest ascenders? It's kind of a question of framing: How do you frame these activities? We frame them as freedom-loving, exciting, progressing sports and they are. But there are other ways to frame it. It's also true that these young men, neurologists say that their frontal lobes aren't developed yet - the long-term planning part of the brain.
Lucy Walker / Film Producer
Men
Sports
Suicidal
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I can ask someone to let me into all aspects of their life for several years, but people have got to have that gift: that courage and that talent for opening their lives to the camera. Being candid is a gift, and that's what the audience responds to. Part of it is me asking, and part of it is just their inherent talent, which is what you are looking for when you make documentaries - people that are really going to let you in on what they are going through.
Lucy Walker / Film Producer
Let Me
People
Talent
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I think we've reached that point where we understand medically what we are doing to ourselves with these sports. In football, it's kind of hard to get the access that you want for the story and, of course, it's very long-term: the effects of the repeat concussions really don't hit until decades afterwards, whereas the traumatic injuries in extreme sports are very immediate. I realized Traumatic Brain Injury was a fascinating and important story that not had been told very much. I wanted to know more.
Lucy Walker / Film Producer
Sports
Football
Thinking
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There's a theory of accidents that I studied when I was making a film about nuclear weapons: you can never eliminate accidents, because the measures you introduce to prevent accidents actually produce more accidents. That's certainly true of this sport; you're flying over 40 feet of what might look like snow, but it's hard as ice, it's as hard as pavement. You're doing acrobatic spins and tricks, 40 feet above pavement, essentially. There's been more accidents since, and there are going to continue to be more accidents, that's the nature of the sport.
Lucy Walker / Film Producer
Sports
Flying
Snow
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