Asif Kapadia Quotes

A big part of my filmmaking is that I can go somewhere new and, visually, be excited by it.

Asif Kapadia

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• Even if I'm gone all day, breakfast is the one meal I always cook for my kids. I make French toast, oatmeal, or an egg burrito.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Kids
  • Day
  • Breakfast

• I depend on good editors and a good director.

  

  Indira Varma
  • Good
  • Depend
  • Editors

• My wife and I have very deep roots in Colorado, and we can't see ourselves living anywhere else.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Wife
  • Deep
  • Roots

• I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Worry
  • Jazz
  • Discussion

• There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Money
  • Want

• Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a symbol for Palestine. But I write as a poet, and my mother is my mother. She's not a symbol.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Mother
  • Write
  • Symbol

• You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.

  

  Randy Couture
  • You
  • Play
  • Find

• I never ran with my dad. He was old-school. He had a whole different idea of training. He ran in steel-toed boots! But, of course, he's proud of me and proud of the boxer that I became.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Different
  • School
  • Dad

• I feel like I'm quite versatile. I want to do lots of different styles.

  

  Fleur East
  • Different
  • Want
  • Like

• In England people are very proud of being very stupid.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Proud
  • Stupid

• I will say this: I've had more pro-life bills, I believe, I ruled unconstitutional - but I tried - than the entire total membership of Congress together.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Together

• Everything I ask is a question from Tamron, like it or not. My team does not write my questions. We put together a segment. We talk about the elements that I want, but we have a conversation for that hour with our guests.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Together
  • Team
  • Question

• Like crime, terrorism is a fact of life. I grew up in Israel, where every unattended bag was a suspected bomb; when my family moved for a few years, it was to London in the early years of 'the Troubles.'

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• There's a relationship between music and spirituality and inspiration and to a certain extent improvisation that draws me in, because I don't totally understand it. I know that those relationships have been telling me, since I started making records, where to go. What to write down.

  

  M. Ward
  • Music
  • Relationship
  • Inspiration

• When I was in the hospital, I was very suicidal in a kind of blind way, I was starving to death and just 'cause I didn't want to turn out like my family showed me, you know, that's all I ever saw of people, was my own family. I wasn't allowed to associate with anyone. Oh, God. So I didn't want to live.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • People
  • God
  • Live

• Raindrops keep fallin' on my headAnd just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bedNothin' seems to fit

  

  Hal David
  • Guy

• But with the morning cool reflection came.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Morning
  • Cool
  • Reflection

• Oh I haven't got a clue what to do with you,Jesus all the things my head is going through.

  

  Robbie Williams Take That
  • Jesus

• My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.

  

  Elizabeth McGovern
  • Music
  • Family

• I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Book
  • Government
  • Hands

• One of the big challenges now is to figure out just how many viruses there really are in the human genome. So far the estimate is 8.3% of our genome is virus, but it actually could be a lot higher.

  

  Carl Zimmer
  • Challenges
  • Bigs
  • Figures

• I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two - are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • World

• I think so often, especially if the work is perceived of as being drawn from life, the woman, not her book, is reviewed.

  

  Kate Zambreno
  • Woman
  • Especially
  • Perceived

• A big part of my filmmaking is that I can go somewhere new and, visually, be excited by it.

  

  Asif Kapadia