Short films Quotes · Page 2

That's the beauty of short films; their strength lies in delivering a message creatively and simply.

— Sanam Saeed

Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director.

— John Lasseter

There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.

— Felicity Jones

There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.

— David Lynch

When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.

— Brett Ratner

I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects.

— Andy Serkis

I made some probably very cringe-worthy short films that shall hopefully never make the light of day.

— Steve Toltz

Short films are good, especially since independent films are making waves now, more than before.

— Karthik Subbaraj

But even a kid, directing was something that I did. I made short films in school. I feel like I've been in…

— Alden Ehrenreich

Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting.…

— Brit Marling

Pixar's short films convinced Disney that if the company could produce memorable characters within five minutes, then the confidence was there in…

— John Lasseter

I usually take up short films when I am not tied up with feature films. Short films are easier to work on...…

— Radhika Apte

A gem of a short film has a sense of pure joy in animation that is different from anything you see in…

— John Lasseter

I've only made short films and two features, which are very different. One is a surreal comedy, and the other is a…

— Sophie Barthes

My aunt put my cousins into a children's modelling agency, then my mum did it with us. Me and my sister got…

— Sullivan Stapleton

With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films,…

— Bruce Conner

When I was in architecture school, rather than giving us drafting boards and t-squares and lead pencils and stuff they gave us…

— Joseph Kosinski

I was a bartender in New York and I overheard this girl saying she made $3000 doing a commercial. A kid at…

— Pauley Perrette

It was only when I started making short films in college and I was looking for girls to play the me-ish parts…

— Lena Dunham

It was a subject [ volcanoes] that was dormant in me for a long time and it popped up 40 years ago…

— Werner Herzog

As a performer, you can't just sit around waiting for the phone to ring. You have to write and develop projects for…

— Wendi McLendon-Covey

I remember when I was like 19 years old and I started a desk calendar company to pay for my first short…

— Jason Reitman

Certainly, I've loved musicals for a while, so I did some short films in college that had musical numbers and things like…

— Damien Chazelle

What made me want to be an actor? Ah, I'm not really sure, to be honest. I was one of those little…

— Theo James

I'm very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features.

— Bill Plympton

I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology.

— Jason Silva

In the late '80s, as a child, I used to shoot short films on my friend's wedding camera.

— Sajid Khan

Well, going way back, when we were making short films, it was just the two of us. Literally, Anna had her little…

— Ryan Fleck

I've always been a comedy nerd, and 'Partners in Crime' was probably more influential for me than anything else because it was…

— Baron Vaughn

All of my short films are about marriages, and I think that this probably comes from some kind of unconscious fascination with…

— Sarah Polley

I think I've found my passion in life. I'm going to direct a couple of short film on hiatus. That's what I…

— Matt Barr

I did a short film called 'Disco' and won an award for Best Supporting Actor at an indie film festival, and that…

— Charlie Rowe

Always had a passion for acting since I could remember, but I started when I was ten going for short film and…

— Megan Lee

I never thought about acting before I started modeling, but since then I've been in short films and music videos, and I…

— Rila Fukushima

Alternate between short films, long form films, with or without stars, small budget or big budget films. Basically a filmmaker needs to…

— Marion Vernoux

When I was younger, me and my brother got a video camera, and he used to direct and I used to act.…

— Iain De Caestecker

I used to spend $25,000 of my own money on my short films, and I wouldn't make that back, not even close.…

— Shane Dawson

I started making little short films with friends, and then I decided I wanted to get into the school play in high…

— Bill Hader

Short film: you can be poetic and you don't have to answer anything. You can make whatever you want. You have creative…

— Taika Waititi

When I was watching 'Sivaji,' I had no clue I will be a filmmaker; I had not even started making short films…

— Karthik Subbaraj