Asif Kapadia Quotes

When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.

I tend not to be so attracted to films that force me into an intellectual place over an emotional one.

I love drama. Drama is, like, my thing. I want a movie that will move something inside me, that's going to shift something and keep me thinking.

I like movies a lot, and I feel really excited when I see a movie that moves me the right way.

It was almost enough to make me feel emotion.

I felt violated after certain scenes in the movie [Stone]. She [Lucetta] is a tough character. The choices she makes, especially her sexual choices... it was hard for me to put myself out there like that.

Sound is 50 percent of the movie going experience, and I've always believed audiences are moved and excited by what they hear in my movies at least as much as by what they see.

I take losses very personal and very serious.

It still hasn't kicked in yet. I haven't had a second to think about it. And I don't physically have the Grammy! So I can't even look at it!

The first film I remember seeing was Bambi. It has stayed with me because it was so sad.

If he didn't care about you, you couldn't upset him.

The first time I ever cried in a movie was in Dead Poet's Society.

It's fashionable to be indifferent to other people's suffering

People who cannot feel punish those who do.

We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.

It's just a wonderful experience and it's fun when you make a film and people go to it to emote and in my picture you hear the audible sobbing and then you hear the audible laughter and then you see people leaving the theater with a little bit of spring in their step. It's just great to be part of one that lasts a long time.

The horror of our history has purged me of opinions.

The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

The fans, I loved them. My mother would be in the gallery, I would look right at my mother and not remember.

Numb is the new deep.

For one who is having no personal experience, the passionate disquiet of others is at any rate a titillation of the nerves, like seeing a play or listening to music.

Loss aversion is a really disproportionate anxiety about stuff that doesn't matter very much. So for instance, if you lose $5, you feel really bad about the $5 you've lost. You're cursing yourself. You're going through it again and again. If, on the other hand, you find $5, you go - hey, great, five bucks. And you've forgotten about it really quickly.

Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate'er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same; Where things exceed your hope or fall below, You stare, look blank, grow numb from top to toe.

And we are a people without tears. The things that moved our parents do not move us at all.

Did you forget? I'm a heartless wretch!