Asif Kapadia Quotes

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

I think when I got drawn to film, I didn't know it was a business. I mean, like most filmmakers, I probably saw more films than a lot of people when I was a kid. But I watched them on TV as well. I was no purist about it. I spent lots of time in movie theaters, but I also watched a lot of films on TV.

When it comes to turning out movies, I'm for Hollywood.

I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.

My first film festival and my first film that I've ever been in, 'Martha Marcy May Marlene,' that was at Sundance.

I shot film with the Coen brothers on 'Hail, Caesar!' That's fine. I'm sentimental about film; I've shot film for forty years or something.

I would love to work with Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich, Omar Epps, Martin Scorsese, Josh Mond, Woody Allen, Paul Thomas Anderson, and David O. Russell, just to name a few. Those guys are absolutely brilliant at what they do.

For any actor, being part of a Mani Ratnam film is a great experience. I grew up watching his films.

I knew nothing about editing when I met Mr. Scorsese... Through a series of weird events, I ended up at New York University, and there was Martin Scorsese, and he had some troubles with a film I was able to fix. That's the only reason I became a filmmaker.

I have always thought of films as stories for the world.

Cannes is one of the biggest film festivals across the globe, and getting your film selected for a screening is quite a big achievement.

Cinema is a form of art, and like every other art form, cinema also needs freedom of expression.

I want to become a movie director and win an Academy Award. That's what I'm trying to do.

I had the time of my life playing Rose in Wes Craven's 'The Girl in the Photographs.' I became so close with the cast and crew, it was hard to leave after we wrapped.

I like to produce my own movies.

But I'm very keen to work with directors such as Imtiaz Ali, Zoya Akhtar, Farhan Akhtar, Vishal Bhardwaj, Abhishek Chaubey, Anurag Kashyap and Abhishek Kapoor.

I'm so grateful to be part of the Sundance family.

Cinema was always my passion and dream.

I love movies and I'm interested in watching how they're made and everything.

There are so many wonderful films being made everywhere, including in Hollywood.

I got into films by accident.

Directing a Hindi movie for the first time was easy because Hindi films have been batwing doors for me since 1992.

I think it would be great to have more female directors making huge-budget movies.

I would like to do a Tamil film.

Getting a movie made is a miracle... because the studios are only interested in making 'The Avengers.'