SECONDARY QUOTATIONS

• they wanted to '[create something] that felt like a single film, rather than a collection of random clips.' Chris King.
• Amy's family intiially supported the project, but distanced themselves after claiming it held 'misleading truths and contained some basic untruths.'
• Kapadia: 'the lyrics seem to have all the answers.'
• Kapadia = in scenes where she sings, it is like 'the action in SENNA', he claims amy was always going to be a musical.
• 'the camera goes from being her friend to the enemy.'
• Kapadia on speaking to Nick

  'he spoke for five hours without thinking about it. he then said that wasnt the half of it and we talked again'

  'i probably recorded 15 hours.'
• Kapadia on the changing relationship between Amy and the camera.


  'i thought that was the most interesting thing, how the audience change from Nick saying 'go on, give us a little flash its only us' in the car to the paps going 'come on, cheer up.'
• BFI 'i kind of think i am investigating a crime here'
• In terms of true fiction, Kapadia said: 'filmmaking is about construction'
• True fiction:

  'i have no interest in being objective. I have an opinion - you might not see me (in the film) but i'm in it.'
• 'we are not adapting a book, there is not one POV' - he interviewed over 100 people.
• Nick Shymansky 'the closest thing you get to truth is footage in the moment.'

  Idea of the real / truth.
• Kapadia: 'you need layers to a story to feel like a movie'
• Kapadia portrays ideas of female injustice in ‘Amy’ as he presents Amy Winehouse as a victim of negligent manslaughter due to the peoples’ inability to see her public illness