Asif Kapadia Quotes

As far as I'm concerned, I make movies.

Asif Kapadia

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• New York is one of the greatest cities in the world. It is a fitting host to its many international visitors, who can come to witness first-hand what a vibrant multicultural democracy looks like.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Hand
  • Democracy

• All men begin their learning with Homer.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Men
  • Learning
  • Begin

• The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Best
  • Service
  • Yourself

• Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Game
  • Free
  • Difference

• I want to show people there's not just one way of being Muslim.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Want
  • Way

• Actually, the camera was never overhead at any time. It was always a side view of me. Subsequently, after the picture was released, I saw some scenes from above and my clothes being pulled-and I think that was added later.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Time
  • Think
  • Picture

• Now Herod was an active man, and soon found proper materials for his active spirit to work upon.

  

  Flavius Josephus
  • Work
  • Man
  • Spirit

• On radio, you're in your own little world. Every time I'd be doing a possible no-hitter - I think I've done something like 25 no-hitters and a couple of perfect games - I would always put the date on the tape. Not for me, but for the player, so that 25 or 30 years later when he's playing it for his kids or grandkids, you have that date.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Time
  • World
  • Done

• I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I'm lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, 'Let's go out to dinner.'

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • Good
  • Food

• I work out six days a week. Usually 45 minutes of running, then swimming and weightlifting.

  

  Garrett Neff
  • Work
  • Running
  • Week

• Being the leader of a division is a pressure, but it's one that I feel I am ready for.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Leader
  • Pressure
  • Division

• I don't know where I come from but I'm here now so deal with it.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Know
  • Now
  • Where

• I can scare myself like a pro.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Myself
  • Like
  • I Can

• I think the fact that I created something and had an enormous influence is indisputable.

  

  La Monte Young
  • Think
  • Influence
  • Fact

• If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Write
  • Try
  • Just

• Of the 16 years that I have been living in Germany, I have given myself entirely to the German art world. How am I now suddenly supposed to feel myself a foreigner?

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • World
  • Art
  • German

• Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either.

  

  Eric Mazur
  • Notes
  • Passing
  • Lecture

• I updated my grilling app, iGrill, today and it now has Facebook integration that lets you see what other people are grilling right now around the world. Awesome.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • People
  • World
  • Today

• All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at about twelve when some guy comes up and says, "You're no good." That's all we get told all our lives. "You haven't got the ability. You're a cobbler." It happened to all of us, but if somebody had told me all my life, "Yeah, you're a great artist," I would have been a more secure person.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Kids
  • Poetry
  • Ability

• So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.

  

  Vanna White
  • Home
  • Mistake
  • Television

• Fundamentally, all art is about human beings. You're always showing larger moral questions through the smaller moral, philosophical, or political choices through one character in the book.

  

  Philipp Meyer
  • Art
  • Character
  • Book

• As far as I'm concerned, I make movies.

  

  Asif Kapadia