Asif Kapadia
Asif Kapadia
Asif Kapadiais a British filmmaker. He directed several award-winning films, including The Sheep Thief, winner of the 2nd Prize Cinéfondation for Short Film at the Cannes Film Festival, The Warrior, the BAFTA Award for Best British Film 2003 and Senna, winner of the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary, the BAFTA Award for Best Editing and the World Cinema Audience Award Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival 2011 and Amywhich has become the highest grossing documentary of all time in the...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDirector
drama few god heads normally short talking
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.
anyone great tv
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.
based films scripts time
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.
somewhere
A big part of my filmmaking is that I can go somewhere new and, visually, be excited by it.
great
It's always great to be able to go to a premiere with the actors there.
appeal dramas dreams formula great human sports
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.
creating cuts faster imperative love moments pace perfect tenor trying
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.
hope lives people room screen sitting stop strangers watching
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.
across likes tightrope towers
You don't have to be someone who likes walking a tightrope across the Twin Towers to watch 'Man On Wire.'
authorized
'Amy' is somewhere in the middle of authorized and unauthorized.
love
For me, 'Amy' is a very dark film about love.
If I'm going to do something, I'm going to spend however long it takes to get it right.
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.
art designers encouraged school study surrounded
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.