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
born far found life liked lived time weirdly
Weirdly enough, I live in London - was born there and have lived there all my life - but I hadn't made a film in London for a long time. I hadn't found the right subject. I liked going away, to some far flung place.
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I'd always intended to make 'Far North' straight after 'The Warrior.' We had the rights to the short story, the script was in development, and I knew where I wanted to shoot it. It just took a long time getting the script together and raising the finance.
grand jean last michelle ran time vip worked
I worked with Michelle Yeoh on my last film, 'Far North,' and her partner is Jean Todt; at the time, he ran Ferrari. So I went as a VIP to the British grand prix.
fact filming stand time tv worked
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.
fully time
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.
time
A lot of the time when I'm working, I'm abroad.
grand monaco time
The Monaco Grand Prix is in May right around the time of Cannes.
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 massive questions subjects
The subjects have to come with questions for me. I don't make films where I'm a massive fan.
amazing ran
I used to live in Pillgwenlly, and there was this old Italian pizzeria that used to be there with a really amazing character who ran it.
felt last million next watched
The worst thing ever for me is go see a movie, and the next day I go, 'What did I do last night? I have no memory of this $300 million movie I watched because I felt nothing.'
life
Real life is far more complicated than fiction.
people
People have always been recording what's going on around them in one form or another.
boxing catch chance lucky tragedy underdog
Boxing is made for film - there is corruption, violence, tragedy and the chance that the underdog can catch the champion with one lucky punch.