K Asif Quotes

#1. 'Amy' is somewhere in the middle of authorized and unauthorized.

Asif Kapadia

#2. My team and I used the actual footage to create a three-act story of the life of Ayrton Senna. There are no talking heads and no voiceover. Senna narrates his own epic, dramatic, thrilling journey.

Asif Kapadia

#3. Directing can be very lonely and quite intimidating.

Asif Kapadia

#4. 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

#5. People have always been recording what's going on around them in one form or another.

Asif Kapadia

#6. I lived in Camden, Primrose Hill and Kentish Town for 10 years.

Asif Kapadia

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. The subjects have to come with questions for me. I don't make films where I'm a massive fan.

Asif Kapadia

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. I love telling stories with images. But I think there's more to just saying a movie is great visually.

Asif Kapadia

#13. 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

#14. My interest in filmmaking was always very much the visuals and images.

Asif Kapadia

#15. I was a sports fan long before I had any interest in film-making.

Asif Kapadia

#16. I like to make films where I learn along the way, like the audience.

Asif Kapadia

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. What can I say?" Asif shrugged. "Geeky as charged.

Vic James

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. I'm an ordinary Hackney boy, and I can talk to people.

Asif Kapadia

#25. 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

#26. '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

#27. 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

#28. '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

#29. One comes, and one goes. Basically, what you leave behind is the record.

Asif Ali Zardari

#30. The thing people don't get about Indian films is that the songs are the story.

Asif Kapadia