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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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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I love Baltimore and the people who call it home, and I sincerely believe that Maryland's biggest city must serve as the economic and cultural heart of our state.
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My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.
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Brad Pitt's role in 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith' - I want to do that so bad! That's one of my favorite movies of all time, and that character was so funny.
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I'm always investing and building things at the same time.
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Military spouses serve, too, and it's critical we work together to ensure our country's military spouses have the jobs they need and deserve.
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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.
