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.

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

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