Asif Kapadia Quotes

When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week.

On a team, trust is all about vulnerability, which is difficult for most people.

I'll work with a director if I think I'm going to get into a comfortable situation, and if it's someone I respect and who respects me, even if they're not so well known. Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best.

I think the way it works is that when you're casting a movie, you usually want to work with people that you believe in.

I think the movie business, you meet people, and you work intensely with them, and you have these relationships - there's an intimacy to it and a familiarity to the relationship because you're having to let go of all your barriers so you can let people in and work with them.

Professional people build relationships by doing the work together.

I do a film only when I feel I will be comfortable with the set-up and other members of the team.

A good working relationship between an actor and the director is very important. It takes a while to build a comfort zone because filmmaking is a long process so it is important to connect with people you work with.

A lot of making a movie is the comfort level of the people. It's just feeling open. We need to get along. We have to know something about each other.

People want to work with a person, not for a company.

Filmmaking is such a collaboration. At a certain point, I suppose you do have to let go and trust the people you're working with.

When you're working, you have so many people working around you and being involved. It can get a bit overwhelming. I've just gotten used to it.

And trust. It takes a long time to trust someone. You work with people, anybody you dont know, it takes about a films length to get to know each other. Then if you move on, you have to start right back at the beginning. But if you carry on together and try doing different things, you can all grow together.

When you spend many hours a week working with the same people - I mean television operates on really amazing hours and the gift of that is the trust that you feel and the intimacy that you feel with the people who you're working with.

Usually I'm trying to work with people that I've worked with before, so we have a certain amount of know-how and what we're going to do together.

No idea will work if people don't trust your intentions toward them.

When you make many films with the same actors you can develop a special understanding with them. I love working with people I know and that I trust.

When I work, I'm the actor. I'm going to do my job. I'm not going to direct the movie. If I wanted to direct it, I would direct it. I wanted J.J. Abrams to direct Mission: Impossible. I work with people that I respect. I expect them to do their jobs, and I will do mine. And I am there as a producer to help in any way, but no one makes a movie by themselves. It's a collaboration.

I only work with people I trust and respect.

I've worked on jobs where there are almost 200 people on set... you always make an effort to have a relationship but you can't really when there's 200.

Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best. You don't want to work with people who don't care or who are acting out some neurotic, crazy thesis on the set.

Everyone is a little bit more close-knit and you rely on people a little bit more. The bigger the budget gets, the more everyone toes the line in their department.

It's an all-inclusive package, when you get to be creative and run a little country while you're on a set and doing it with people that you enjoy working with and you all have a say in it.

When you take on a TV show, you give trust to people that you really just met.

Take time to get to know people. Understand where they are coming from, what is important to them. Make sure they are with you.