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I'm riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, 'megaramp' skateboarding and half-pipe snowboarding. I'm fascinated partly... →
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... →
I remember when the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly intractable problems get solved.
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... →
Extreme sports tricks are becoming increasingly complex, the courses ever more challenging and crashes all too common.
With portable cameras and affordable data and non-linear digital editing, I think this is a golden age of documentary filmmaking. These new... →
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.
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... →
I can't help seeing 'Waste Land' as the third in a triptych with my earlier films 'Devil's Playground' and... →
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... →
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... →
I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work.
I think we have become oversaturated with tired fictional narratives.