I knew I had found something interesting to film. Everything was there. You had these eccentric guys, competing in an extreme sport on the fringes of social acceptability. I was friends with them. I was one of them. I had just suffered a severe neck injury and couldn't train. So I brought my video camera into class and just let it roll.
I grew up watching Star Wars, Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., etc. Every year, it seemed like another classic movie came out, movies I still watch regularly to this day.