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
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
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
My wife Victoria Harwood was art director on ‘Far North,’ and she had designed my student film, ‘The Sheep Thief.’ – Asif Kapadia
My films often have a spiritual dimension which comes from my Muslim background, and I’m happy to tackle that in cinema. – Asif Kapadia
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
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
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
The subjects have to come with questions for me. I don’t make films where I’m a massive fan. – Asif Kapadia
I love telling stories with images. But I think there’s more to just saying a movie is great visually. – Asif Kapadia
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
