Asif Kapadia Quotes

On 'Senna,' it got to the point where there was so much footage that our first editor had the wild suggestion that we only use the archive.

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• I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Important
  • Remember
  • Old

• When I was in high school,we were, like, 4,000 or 5,000 students, and 50 girls - and I didn't have a date for my prom. My father paid my cousin to take me.

  

  Iman
  • School
  • High
  • Father

• For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Change
  • Justice
  • Sea

• On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.

  

  Wade Davis
  • Culture
  • Bold
  • Paper

• A lot of what acting is paying attention.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Attention
  • Acting
  • Lot

• I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Goal
  • Doing
  • Just

• For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery. People do things for unfathomable reasons. They are opaque even to themselves.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • People
  • Work
  • Mystery

• I really want to keep modelling, but it's not my number one goal in life. But it's so fun. I love doing it; it's just that - it's not like I just want to be a model when I'm older.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Goal

• You cannot schedule death.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Death
  • You
  • Schedule

• R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Job
  • Father

• As the U.S., much of Europe, and the U.K. shift toward the political right, the rhetoric grows more insular, defensive, and protective.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Political
  • Europe
  • Rhetoric

• I didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • America
  • True
  • Realize

• I did green screen for the first time! I wouldn't like to do a whole movie of green screen, though. You kind of forget the plot a little - like being in a Broadway play and doing it over and over and forgetting your line halfway through.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Forget

• Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Country
  • Today
  • Trade

• While advances in scientific research have led to some new and exciting treatments that have enlarged and enhanced the quality and length of human life, we must not lose sight as to what we are trying to accomplish.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Quality

• These modern productions are all very well, But there's nothing to equal, from what I hear tell, That moment of mystery When I made history As Firefrorefiddle, the Fiend of the Fell.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • History

• It seemed like there was no control over it. I think certain things just popped. God was blessing us in telling us that certain things were going the way they were supposed to go.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • God
  • Control

• I was tough on myself because I feared being a lazy procrastinator and the inevitable result: being mediocre or second best. I always went the extra mile.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Lazy

• I am very conservative. I don't invest in anything that is risky. If someone comes to me with a project idea, I let them risk their money, not mine.

  

  Claudia Schiffer
  • Money
  • Risk
  • Idea

• People are, you know, a little - they're still uncertain, and they're uncertain both because they don't know what might come next in terms of regulations, but they're also uncertain because of changes in a global economy that we're only beginning to take hold of.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Changes
  • Uncertain

• There's something very simple and contemplative about 'John Wick' - what is interesting is that it looks like it was based on an Akira Kurosawa movie.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Simple

• When we first came in October, there would be one other group that we would recognize from our school. Now there's at least six.

  

  Kevin Cronin REO Speedwagon
  • School
  • Group
  • First Came

• You know what offends me? Offended people. In a country with guaranteed rights to freedom of religion, its citizens are constantly trying to make faith in public spheres illegal, I am offended by that contradiction and want to talk about it as a comic.

  

  Brad Stine
  • Freedom
  • Religion
  • Comic

• On 'Senna,' it got to the point where there was so much footage that our first editor had the wild suggestion that we only use the archive.

  

  Asif Kapadia