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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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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I tell people all the time, as I was going through my process of being a comedian or being an actor and a writer at 'SNL,' I tell people that everything you do is all a piece of your puzzle to determine where you're going to end up at.
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My brother's in comics. I work in media.
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Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real? I remember at the time of the wreck-- people were so kind and helpful and solid. Everyone pretended that our lives until that moment had been every bit as real as the moment itself and that the future must be real too, when the truth was that our reality had been purchased only by Lyell's death. In another hour or so we had all faded out again and gone our dim ways.
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I die happy.
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If I can encourage and get somebody to get through what they're dealing with, their set of circumstances, that's the right thing to do.
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People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.
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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.
