Top 100 Asif Quotes
#1. What can I say?" Asif shrugged. "Geeky as charged.
Vic James
#2. The Tour de France would make a great movie. Drugs, corruption, political chicanery, guys risking their lives - everything you need for a great sports drama.
Asif Kapadia
#3. When my party won the elections convincingly on February 18th, 2008, we immediately reached out to other parties to form broad-based coalitions of national unity in the National Assembly and in the four provincial assemblies.
Asif Ali Zardari
#4. I used to live in Pillgwenlly, and there was this old Italian pizzeria that used to be there with a really amazing character who ran it.
Asif Kapadia
#5. 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.'
Asif Kapadia
#6. Standard is not the money you have nor the creed you belong to ,truly IT IS CHARACTER ...
Zainab Asif
#8. We spent four days filming in a helicopter. I had never seen London from that viewpoint - you get a sense of how big it is and how easy it is to get lost. There was one day when we couldn't find Brick Lane: we spent 25 minutes looking and then realised it was directly below us.
Asif Kapadia
#9. What can I do if everyone from the president to a junior bureaucrat is dying to convict me. If I am such a criminal, what was I doing outside jail before my marriage to Benazir?
Asif Ali Zardari
#10. hopefully. "Recently, I mean." "I've got other things to be doing than tracking elephants!" said the chital. "Motherhood's not easy, you know!" "No of course not,
Asif W
#11. I never realised 'The Return' would take so long to make - it was a very tough 'political experience,' and the post production in L.A. seemed to go on forever.
Asif Kapadia
#12. I studied graphic design originally. I used to like drawing, and I was quite into technical drawing. I was always interested in the visual medium, but I thought I was going to be an architect or something like that, but it's quite a lonely job.
Asif Kapadia
#13. Since you've stepped in the war battlefield, it is impossible for you to turn back.
Asif
#14. If you will remember history correctly, even the Second World War was perpetrated by a stateless actor, by murdering the Prince Rudolf, if you remember. And so is the case with 9/11. It was a stateless actor which has made the world go to war.
Asif Ali Zardari
#15. 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.
Asif Kapadia
#16. On the international political landscape, there is better understanding of Pakistan's political economic and strategic issues. We aspire to promote peace and harmony with the region.
Asif Ali Zardari
#17. The Monaco Grand Prix is in May right around the time of Cannes.
Asif Kapadia
#18. I want to make my own films from my own scripts based on stories I want to tell, but they take time to put together.
Asif Kapadia
#19. My background is from India, and I always get asked, 'When are you going to do an Indian film, a musical or Bollywood film?'
Asif Kapadia
#20. I wanted to study film at an art school - I loved the idea of being surrounded by designers and artists. We were encouraged to be experimental.
Asif Kapadia
#21. I'm a sport fan. So, I have always watched everything, and I used to watch racing. Formula One was always on. The genius about it is that it's on at lunchtime on a Sunday.
Asif Kapadia
#22. Our life is like a race and soon we are going to reach the ribbon ... You should race so well that your race flashbacks every Olympics
Zainab Asif
#23. The emphasis of my government is to take advantage from the Chinese experience in the fields of agriculture, fisheries, energy, infrastructure, development, health and high efficiency irrigation.
Asif Ali Zardari
#24. Hopefully, when people see 'Senna', they will understand why this inspirational story needed to be told, why it had to be made as a movie for the big screen, and why it is a film for everyone.
Asif Kapadia
#25. As a child, I was spoilt by my parents as an only son. They indulged my every whim, and I grew up in luxury.
Asif Ali Zardari
#26. My wife Victoria Harwood was art director on 'Far North,' and she had designed my student film, 'The Sheep Thief.'
Asif Kapadia
#27. After Newport, I worked in television for a while, and then I went to The Royal College Of Art and did a master's degree. I really did study quite a lot!
Asif Kapadia
#28. You don't have to be someone who likes walking a tightrope across the Twin Towers to watch 'Man On Wire.'
Asif Kapadia
#29. After the assassination of my wife, our nation was perilously close to civil strife. If I, as the co-chairman of the Party, had asked my people to take to the streets, the very existence of the federation would have been threatened.
Asif Ali Zardari
#30. I am looking forward and I am hoping that I will be the catalyst that makes India and Pakistan live for peace forever.
Asif Ali Zardari
#31. Martin Scorsese was being given an honorary doctorate, and one of the tutors asked if there was a student film he particularly liked. He mentioned our film. There was a dinner after the final show just for the tutors, but I was smuggled in to meet Scorsese over dessert.
Asif Kapadia
#32. When I was given the opportunity to direct 'Senna,' I decided the film had to work for audiences who disliked sport or had never seen a Formula One race in their lives. It had to thrill and emotionally engage people who had never heard of Ayrton Senna.
Asif Kapadia
#33. To be teammates in Formula One actually means you are first rivals, not really mates.
Asif Kapadia
#34. There are no drivers like Formula One drivers. They are engineers, in a way. They are driving manual cars one-handed at 200 miles per hour around streets in Monaco. These cars use the ultimate in technology.
Asif Kapadia
#35. Weirdly enough, I live in London - was born there and have lived there all my life - but I hadn't made a film in London for a long time. I hadn't found the right subject. I liked going away, to some far flung place.
Asif Kapadia
#36. All wisdom is in learning how to go with the proverbial flow,
Asif Ismael
#37. There's this great TV show we have called 'Later ... with Jools Holland', a live-music show on Friday nights. Anyone and everyone's been on it.
Asif Kapadia
#38. Be a man who shows the world the universe in them
Zainab Asif
#39. You can't stop people watching on mobiles, but I hope the old fashioned idea of sitting in a dark room with a big screen with a group of strangers lives on forever.
Asif Kapadia
#40. I still don't think like that. Because of Benazir, nobody else [in her party] was thinking about leadership. This position comes about only because of the vacuum that was created with her death.
Asif Ali Zardari
#41. It's always great to be able to go to a premiere with the actors there.
Asif Kapadia
#42. As much as I love creating entertaining visuals, I love toying with the pace of a movie and trying to perfect that. It's imperative to the impact: faster cuts, cuts at the right moments that meld with the tenor of a scene. Creating and maintaining that feeling.
Asif Kapadia
#44. I never know going in if I've even got a movie to make. Once you start making a film, you hope there's going to be enough material! My job as a director is always to push for more.
Asif Kapadia
#45. Journalists are bigger terrorists than terrorists themselves.
Asif Ali Zardari
#46. I just loved films. I knew I wanted to work on film, not video.
Asif Kapadia
#47. For me, 'Amy' is a very dark film about love.
Asif Kapadia
#48. Democracies do not go to war. War is not our expression of thought.
Asif Ali Zardari
#49. My films often have a spiritual dimension which comes from my Muslim background, and I'm happy to tackle that in cinema.
Asif Kapadia
#50. I have done prison time for 13 years without any conviction.
Asif Ali Zardari
#51. I often make films about subjects I don't really know much about. Maybe it's laziness, but I don't go in there having done a tonne of research; the research happens while I'm making the film.
Asif Kapadia
#52. 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.
Asif Kapadia
#53. 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.
Asif Kapadia
#54. The subjects have to come with questions for me. I don't make films where I'm a massive fan.
Asif Kapadia
#55. 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.
Asif Kapadia
#56. 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.
Asif Kapadia
#57. I love telling stories with images. But I think there's more to just saying a movie is great visually.
Asif Kapadia
#58. The big thing for me is to make films that you feel, whether you feel happy, whether you feel sad, whether you feel sick; it's to make the audience feel so that the next day they remember what they saw.
Asif Kapadia
#59. My interest in filmmaking was always very much the visuals and images.
Asif Kapadia
#60. I was a sports fan long before I had any interest in film-making.
Asif Kapadia
#61. 'Amy' is somewhere in the middle of authorized and unauthorized.
Asif Kapadia
#62. I studied in Britain and spent great moments of my life there as a student living in Belsize Park. I admire the British trait of the stiff upper lip in the face of adversity. My wife studied in Britain, too, and both of us have many friends there.
Asif Ali Zardari
#63. As a kid, I thought movies were boring. My parents would hire VHS recorders for the weekend and watch Bollywood movies. I'd get bored and go out to Stoke Newington common to play football.
Asif Kapadia
#64. In a film called 'Senna,' the clue is in the title, and we have a Brazilian badge on our sleeve as we were making it. We were making it from Senna's point of view, with Senna narrating it.
Asif Kapadia
#65. Timing of creation of AVF and AVG is important in determining use of VA in prevalent HD patients. KDOQI recommends creation of AVF when either creatinine clearance is less than 25 mL/min, creatinine is 4 mg/dL, or initiation of HD is expected within 1 year.
Arif Asif
#66. Political disagreements have the colour and fragrance that normally is seen and felt in a political bouquet, while remaining united on one issue that democracy is the future of Pakistan.
Asif Ali Zardari
#67. I made three short films of my own which I wrote, produced, directed ... you did everything in those days. My favourite one was something I shot on VHS ... a little documentary.
Asif Kapadia
#68. I'm an ordinary Hackney boy, and I can talk to people.
Asif Kapadia
#69. I worked with Michelle Yeoh on my last film, 'Far North,' and her partner is Jean Todt; at the time, he ran Ferrari. So I went as a VIP to the British grand prix.
Asif Kapadia
#70. '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.
Asif Kapadia
#71. Hamid Gul is an actor who is definitely not in our good books. Hamid Gul is somebody who was never appreciated by our government.
Asif Ali Zardari
#72. '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.'
Asif Kapadia
#73. One comes, and one goes. Basically, what you leave behind is the record.
Asif Ali Zardari
#74. The thing people don't get about Indian films is that the songs are the story.
Asif Kapadia
#75. As an independent person, I find it difficult being dependent for everything, for even my food and medicine, to the prison authorities. I have had to fight through the courts for everything, including even physiotherapy, which is my right under the jail manual.
Asif Ali Zardari
#76. I like to make films where I learn along the way, like the audience.
Asif Kapadia
#77. 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.
Asif Kapadia
#78. Pakistan has assured that it would not allow its territory to be used against India for any acts of terror. India must also reciprocate and address our concerns which are very genuine. Dialogue is the only way forward. Absence of dialogue leads to tension.
Asif Ali Zardari
#79. I don't normally make documentaries. I'm a drama director. I've made a few short docs, but I don't like talking heads or 'voice of God' narrators.
Asif Kapadia
#80. 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.
Asif Kapadia
#81. To be an amazing person you need to be loyal to your religion,loyal to your people and loyal to yourself ...
Zainab Asif
#82. I've always maintained terrorism passes through Pakistan, it doesn't evolve in Pakistan.
Asif Ali Zardari
#83. Boxing is made for film - there is corruption, violence, tragedy and the chance that the underdog can catch the champion with one lucky punch.
Asif Kapadia
#84. A big part of my filmmaking is that I can go somewhere new and, visually, be excited by it.
Asif Kapadia
#85. While still a young student at film school, I was lucky enough to get a golden ticket to a Martin Scorsese master class at BAFTA in Piccadilly: fancy, but technically still 'the flicks'.
Asif Kapadia
#86. 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.
Asif Kapadia
#87. We were studying at Newport Film School, and I found that the only way for me to make films - because you need people and you need equipment - was that I had to be a student.
Asif Kapadia
#88. You must keep in mind that Pakistan has suffered the aftermaths of the Cold War, and that Cold War had left deep imprints on our society. We were the worst sufferers from the ills of the Afghan war.
Asif Ali Zardari
#89. Dreaming and self-esteem are the only things to make one extraordinary ...
Zainab Asif
#90. 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.
Asif Kapadia
#91. Real life is far more complicated than fiction.
Asif Kapadia
#92. Hopefully with digital projection, a film will always look the way the filmmaker intended.
Asif Kapadia
#93. A lot of the time when I'm working, I'm abroad.
Asif Kapadia
#94. Why make a movie about Ayrton Senna? Someone who drove around in circles at 200mph in a car that looked like a giant cigarette packet? Why would anyone who isn't already a fan of Formula 1 care?
Asif Kapadia
#95. I made several short films with very little dialogue. I'm still not a fan of talking heads. My stories are told with images as much as possible.
Asif Kapadia
#96. I worked in TV for a short time and couldn't stand the fact that we'd always be filming someone talking, just giving information.
Asif Kapadia
#97. Directing can be very lonely and quite intimidating.
Asif Kapadia
#98. My background is Indian, so I believe in a spiritual idea that there is another level, another layer or layers, if you will, above us. I believe that there are elements that allow things to be drawn together, a sort of energy.
Asif Kapadia
#99. People have always been recording what's going on around them in one form or another.
Asif Kapadia
#100. I lived in Camden, Primrose Hill and Kentish Town for 10 years.
Asif Kapadia
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