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That sometimes clear. . . and sometimes vague stuff. . . which is. . . mathematics.

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Lucy Walker

Why is nobody questioning the sanity or suicidal tendencies of Everest ascenders? It's kind of a question of framing: How do you frame these activities? We frame them as freedom-loving, exciting, progressing sports and they are. But there are other ways to frame it. It's also true that these young men, neurologists say that their frontal lobes aren't developed yet - the long-term planning part of the brain.

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

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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.

Happen, Moment, Skateboarding, Snowboarding, Sports, Surfing

I remember when the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly intractable problems get solved.

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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 get the access that you want for the story and, of course, it's very long-term: the effects of the repeat concussions really don't hit until decades afterwards, whereas the traumatic injuries in extreme sports are very immediate. I realized Traumatic Brain Injury was a fascinating and important story that not had been told very much. I wanted to know more.

Football, Immediate, Repeat, Sports, Thinking

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.

Believe, Changing, Everything, Mistaking, Objectivity, Responsibility
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