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.
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
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
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 … - Lucy Walker
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 …
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 ge… - Lucy Walker
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 ge…
I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work. - Lucy Walker
I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work.
I remember when the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly intractable problems get solved. - Lucy Walker
I remember when the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly intractable problems get solved.
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:… - Lucy Walker
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:…
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… - Lucy Walker
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…
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… - Lucy Walker
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…
I am riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, 'megaramp' skateboarding and half pipe snowboarding. I am fascinated partly because the sports … - Lucy Walker
I am riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, 'megaramp' skateboarding and half pipe snowboarding. I am fascinated partly because the sports …
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