Asif Kapadia Quotes
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'Senna' took five years, 'Amy' took three years. You try and say, 'Look, there's no deadline.' That's important. Just saying, 'We've got to make the film. And once the film's ready, it will be out there.'
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My films often have a spiritual dimension which comes from my Muslim background, and I'm happy to tackle that in cinema.
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I wanted to make a film that wouldn't just appeal to Formula One fans. That's what the great sports documentaries do - 'Hoop Dreams,' 'When We Were Kings' - they're human dramas first, sport second, if at all.
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The subjects have to come with questions for me. I don't make films where I'm a massive fan.
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The worst thing ever for me is go see a movie, and the next day I go, 'What did I do last night? I have no memory of this $300 million movie I watched because I felt nothing.'
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'Do the Right Thing' has been a big influence on me. I saw it when it first came out in 1989. I was about 18, and it blew me away on many levels - I had never seen anything like it before.
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My interest in filmmaking was always very much the visuals and images.
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I just loved films. I knew I wanted to work on film, not video.
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You don't have to be someone who likes walking a tightrope across the Twin Towers to watch 'Man On Wire.'
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As a filmmaker, you complete a film you have spent years obsessively making, and you know the release prints will never look quite the same; prints get scratched and dirty.
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The thing people don't get about Indian films is that the songs are the story.
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It's always great to be able to go to a premiere with the actors there.
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I don't have these crazy deadlines. I don't have this, 'Oh it's got to be out tomorrow.' I don't like working like that.
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We want to make movies for the big screen. We want people to go to the theater and feel like they're watching a movie.
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I'd always intended to make 'Far North' straight after 'The Warrior.' We had the rights to the short story, the script was in development, and I knew where I wanted to shoot it. It just took a long time getting the script together and raising the finance.
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My family didn't film anything. But then you look deeper and realize, maybe there are photographs, there are things. It's also context: You give something a context, and suddenly it becomes really deep or meaningful footage.
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I don't really rely on watching video monitors. They put you at a certain distance from your actors, and it makes me feel less a part of what's really happening in the scene.
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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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Directing can be very lonely and quite intimidating.
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To be teammates in Formula One actually means you are first rivals, not really mates.
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Boxing is made for film - there is corruption, violence, tragedy and the chance that the underdog can catch the champion with one lucky punch.
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If I'm going to do something, I'm going to spend however long it takes to get it right.
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I was a sports fan long before I had any interest in film-making.