"It's a lovely answer and takes me entirely by surprise. I hadn't realized we were having a serious conversation, or I think I would've given a better reply when he asked me."

“I compose the frame literally with the camera. Unless it makes a story point.”

“I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.”

“I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.”

Source : "‘Crash Reel’ Documentarian Lucy Walker Knows Where She’s Going". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. November 11, 2013.

“What we do to ourselves to look a certain way is crazy.”

“The writing in mathematics text is not only laconic to a fault; it is cold, monotonous, dry, dull, and even ungrammatical... The books are not only printed by machines; they are written by machines.”

“If you think you can do two full-time jobs, people will expect you to do three.”

Source : Andrea Mitchell (2006). “Talking Back: . . . to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels”, p.141, Penguin

“Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.”

“Cancer - a more or less permanent traffic jam in the body.”