Asif Kapadia Quotes
We were working on 'Senna' for a long time before we were fully financed, so we didn't actually have an editor for a while.
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I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
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I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.
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I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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I love playing odd roles.
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I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
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What I wanted was for everyone listening to understand that these things mattered - not necessarily for me, but in this particular forum they mattered in terms of whether of not we were getting a person who should sit on the Supreme Court.
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I didn't learn fire-eating to conquer my fears. I learned fire-eating because I desperately wanted to be in show business.
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Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less.
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Suddenly, we are putting ourselves as the next dinosaurs. It's rather dark; we have narrowed our dreams. It is time to restore our visions. And so it's not a nostalgic idea; it is based with this unconscious need to restore a kind of dynamic for tomorrow.
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When my parents were getting divorced, I just said to myself, 'Go to sleep, and tomorrow you can go skiing.' I cried myself to sleep, and in the morning I was up on the mountain, and I was good.
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We were working on 'Senna' for a long time before we were fully financed, so we didn't actually have an editor for a while.
