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
formula lunchtime sports watched
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.
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.
films
I like to make films where I learn along the way, like the audience.
hopefully
Hopefully with digital projection, a film will always look the way the filmmaker intended.
inspirational people
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.
certain happening less rely
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.
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.
films maybe subjects
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.
badge clue
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.
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.
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.
fan films images several stories
I made several short films with very little dialogue. I'm still not a fan of talking heads. My stories are told with images as much as possible.