Lucy Walker
Lucy Walker
believe haunting location
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.
real mean technology
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.
years people secret
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.
garbage bears might
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.
believe responsibility objectivity
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.
wall berlin remember
I remember when the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly intractable problems get solved.
sports snowboarding surfing
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.
way documentaries fiction
I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.