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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
