Extreme sports tricks are becoming increasingly complex, the courses ever more challenging and crashes all too common.
Lucy WalkerThe world needs more women filmmakers, so we have to keep encouraging ourselves and one another, and eventually things must get easier for us.
Lucy WalkerSome 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 WalkerWith 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 WalkerI 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