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 Read Quote
The thing people don’t get about Indian films is that the songs are the story. Asif Kapadia Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
You don’t have to be someone who likes walking a tightrope across the Twin Towers to watch ‘Man On Wire.’ Asif Kapadia Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
