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.

I'm a sport fan. So, I have always watched everything, and I used to watch racing. Formula One was always on. The genius about it is that it's on at lunchtime on a Sunday.

I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.