Asif Kapadia Quotes

Directing is extrovert and gregarious; writing is isolating, introverted, and lonely.

When you're writing, in theory, everybody is serving you. When you're directing, you're serving everybody - in the guise of acting like everybody's serving you. But you're really serving the materials. You're serving the actors. You're in charge, but it's not free.

No, I wouldn't direct a movie, no. I couldn't. I don't have the patience for it, I don't have the people skills. You have to be clever. I'm not really clever in that kind of way. And you have to be able to manipulate people, but at the same time allow them to feel like they are manipulating you, to get the kind of movie that you want.

I think the best directors aren't afraid to ask questions.

Directors are the fulcrum of the movie. They guide us well, not merely rein actors in. Whenever we stray, they bring us back on track.

Directing was a big learning experience for me because I had to deal with every aspect of everything-all this constant decision-making, with people asking you questions at every moment, and you have to have answers for them all.

You have to have the essential pleasure of making a movie. It's such a huge factor and adventure for a director because you really are the leader and the captain.

I love being creative. I love acting, but I also love directing because you get to have a vision for the whole and bring that vision to fruition.

Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.

It's totally thrilling to direct.

I enjoyed directing, and I really found that it was a great new field to try my hand in.

I love directing.

I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing.

It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.

I'd like to have a go at directing.

Leaders often find themselves temporarily alone.

I can make any kind of movies. I can put up with any kind of situation. And I can tackle them.

There's no way I see myself as a director. Direction is far too creative.

The presidency is probably the loneliest office in America. Regardless of your friends, regardless of how good your marriage is, regardless of anything, you are alone there at the top.

When you're a comedian, you're just by yourself.

A lot of filmmaking is all about filtering out the bullshit.

Filmmaking is to me very similar to being in a café somewhere in Paris and looking at the people walking by.

Probably the biggest challenge for me as a director was to not show how scared I was. I was surrounded by some of the most talented people in the industry, and I had to pretend I knew what I was doing.

As a professional, it pains me to watch a movie that is botched and amateurish. I prefer directors who have control of both their craft and their ideas.

I'm a filmmaker; I want to make films. I don't want to sit in a hotel room waiting to make films, and I can control my thing in Denmark; I can make the film I want to make... of course, I have to write a good script, all that, but if I do my job, it will happen.