Beijing is an example of [families were displaced for the Olympics]. Something like 10,000 families were moved out.

- Gary Hustwit

Every city and country just has a different reason for wanting to host the [Olympic] games.

- Gary Hustwit

Who know what life is going to be like. I mean, there was no demand for the spaces before. It's not like people were flocking to Sochi before; they j…

- Gary Hustwit

If the Russian government continues to pump money into it and makes their national teams train in Sochi and just sort of prop it up as a point of pri…

- Gary Hustwit

In some bigger cities, I don't think people really realize these structures were built for the Olympics.

- Gary Hustwit

Smaller cities, places like Sarajevo, for example, even amid all that destruction there's still so much pride that the [Olympic] games were there and…

- Gary Hustwit

We were talking to shop owners or ordinary people who were living in these buildings now. A lot of the Olympic Villages were turned into housing.

- Gary Hustwit

So many people that we met had some sort of connection to the [Olympics] games. Some story about how they volunteered there, or some sort of memory o…

- Gary Hustwit

Everything in Athens is probably a good example. Any time when there really isn't a need for these facilities in these cities, but they get built any…

- Gary Hustwit