Asif Kapadia

My wife Victoria Harwood was art director on 'Far North,' and she had designed my student film, 'The Sheep Thief.'

I often make films about subjects I don't really know much about. Maybe it's laziness, but I don't go in there having done a tonne of research; the research happens while I'm making the film.

A big part of my filmmaking is that I can go somewhere new and, visually, be excited by it.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

I would never create an image for myself; I'm not that clever.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.