Boney Kapoor Quotes

I've never looked at film-making as a career. I've looked on film-making as an adventure. When you come down the mountain, you get ready to climb again.

I can't imagine ever not doing [acting]. I would feel like I would have lost a limb. But I am older now, and sometimes I wonder who I would have been and what about me would have changed had I not had these experiences as a young person

At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.

I require a lot of stimulation, and there's so much I've learned being in front of the camera, I felt like I had more to give behind it.

I have fun making films. I love making films. It's the only thing I know how to do. And I do it well.

The child in me wanted to try out new things and do something different.

I became passionate about filmmaking. The thrill to make something out of nothing and to go out there to see whether it will work or not attracted me.

I really do believe that the experience of having a child is going to actually make me a much better cinematographer.

It's kind of dangerous to cut in the camera, but that's the only way I know how to direct.

I took a workshop from him a few months after that. That experience changed my whole approach to photography. At that workshop in Yosemite in 1973 I decided I wanted to try and see if I could pursue this for myself, and I'm still trying.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way.

I'm drawn to cinema, especially when you're on a project that feels like it's going to be a challenge.

Back when I taught middle school and wrote adult mysteries, my students often asked me why I wasn't writing for kids. I never had a good answer for them. It took me a long time to realize they were right.

It's a question of dropping the armor and getting up and doing the work you want to do. And film at first is frightening because you are like, 'What's that camera doing?' But then it becomes family and therefore a really wonderful experience.

Being involved in movies is my passion. What's gotten me off the mat is the sense of the child in all of us. I feel like the same guy as I did back in the mail room, but with more wisdom, from the depths of experience to the heights.

I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like the easy route. You have to push very hard to get something unusual, something different.

That's like the greatest experiences of my life still, 'Friends,' so it's not something I want to get away from, but I do want to try and show something new.

I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.

What is the purpose of being human and alive without doing new things?

It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.

I was a loser, a bad kid, I wasn't really into anything, and then someone gave me a camera and I found that this was the thing I wanted to do.

I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn.