{"author":"Asif Kapadia","author_id":"Asif+Kapadia","total_quotes":9,"quotes":[{"text":"I was a sports fan long before I had any interest in film-making.","author":"Asif Kapadia","tags":["long","interest","fan "],"id":2164,"author_id":"Asif+Kapadia"},{"text":"The big thing for me is to make films that you feel, whether you feel happy, whether you feel sad, whether you feel sick; it's to make the audience feel so that the next day they remember what they saw.","author":"Asif Kapadia","tags":["happy","day","me "],"id":89074,"author_id":"Asif+Kapadia"},{"text":"I studied graphic design originally. I used to like drawing, and I was quite into technical drawing. I was always interested in the visual medium, but I thought I was going to be an architect or something like that, but it's quite a lonely job.","author":"Asif Kapadia","tags":["job","drawing","lonely "],"id":92673,"author_id":"Asif+Kapadia"},{"text":"Why make a movie about Ayrton Senna? Someone who drove around in circles at 200mph in a car that looked like a giant cigarette packet? Why would anyone who isn't already a fan of Formula 1 care?","author":"Asif Kapadia","tags":["care","why","like "],"id":129657,"author_id":"Asif+Kapadia"},{"text":"The Tour de France would make a great movie. Drugs, corruption, political chicanery, guys risking their lives - everything you need for a great sports drama.","author":"Asif Kapadia","tags":["great","corruption","political "],"id":266928,"author_id":"Asif+Kapadia"},{"text":"I wanted to make a film that wouldn't just appeal to Formula One fans. That's what the great sports documentaries do - 'Hoop Dreams,' 'When We Were Kings' - they're human dramas first, sport second, if at all.","author":"Asif Kapadia","tags":["sports","great","human "],"id":353289,"author_id":"Asif+Kapadia"},{"text":"I'd always intended to make 'Far North' straight after 'The Warrior.' We had the rights to the short story, the script was in development, and I knew where I wanted to shoot it. It just took a long time getting the script together and raising the finance.","author":"Asif Kapadia","tags":["time","together","short "],"id":412835,"author_id":"Asif+Kapadia"},{"text":"There are no drivers like Formula One drivers. They are engineers, in a way. They are driving manual cars one-handed at 200 miles per hour around streets in Monaco. These cars use the ultimate in technology.","author":"Asif Kapadia","tags":["engineers","driving","way "],"id":418271,"author_id":"Asif+Kapadia"},{"text":"Hopefully, when people see 'Senna', they will understand why this inspirational story needed to be told, why it had to be made as a movie for the big screen, and why it is a film for everyone.","author":"Asif Kapadia","tags":["people","story","why "],"id":441352,"author_id":"Asif+Kapadia"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":9,"pages":1}}