Asif Kapadia Quotes

I think my own strengths are in television production.

When you think about it, media's the intersection of content and technology - it's all about storytelling, like photography and the camera.

My feeling is that if you can cook, I can teach you how to do television.

I still direct my own videos.

I've been working in television for a long time, and I know all aspects of television.

I like working with television. I do.

I love producing. I am loving doing that. I think that is my most natural space in the business. I just love producing or editing and that's where I thrive.

For video clips, you can always assume that there is a creative component since you are literally dealing with production values.

I come up with the ideas for my videos, and I write the lyrics and choreograph them, and I direct them and tell everyone what to do and how I want them to sing the parts and do the tongue pops and eye rolls and stuff like that.

I'm a journalist, and I'm a filmmaker. I have an organization that's all about telling stories.

I'm looking to produce more stuff: TV shows, commercials, music videos and short films. I'm building my catalog so I can have some fun in between the times that I get to a movie.

The more commercial work that is happening, the more people are operating cameras and are setting up studio lights, the greater the opportunity for drama production to happen.

We set out to capture what was happening, and then we cut that into the series.

I actually went to film school and was making experimental films for a short time, so it wasn't such a leap.

I'm a commercial filmmaker.

I love the visual medium of film and TV. I love the science of it, working with the sound and the lighting and every aspect.

I like to work, and I worked for years as a camera person before I directed.

When we started out doing YouTube videos, I think we were very, very early on in terms of people doing a behind-the-scenes component.

I do like being in front of the camera more and more. Having experience behind it has taught me about lighting and angles, how to move, and what looks good and what doesn't.

I learned about making films by going into advertising, making commercials.

I know there are people who can direct sitting down away from it all at a video monitor. But I can't do that.

I love to be in the entertainment space, and my aim is to create new content and entertain people, whether it's in movies or on TV.

I create videos for my YouTube channel Chescaleigh and for 'Decoded,' a series with MTV.

In making YouTube videos, you can't just be an actor, you have to also know the shots and how to write.

I want to start really developing more on the film side.