Short films Quotes · Page 2

I believe short films are more organic. It's almost like doing theatre. It just takes few takes.

— Tahir Raj Bhasin

I did a lot of short films online, so I come from that background where a lot of people see your stuff.

— Ben Schwartz

I think that there's something about short films that just kind of keeps your muscles sharp.

— Karyn Kusama

I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film

— Todd Barry

When I was making short films, I didn't see a way to give them a wider reach or earn revenue out of…

— Karthik Subbaraj

Right at the beginning of my career, I did a couple of short films which were based on a social cause.

— Arjun Mathur

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

— John Lasseter

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

— Sanam Saeed

Lynne Ramsay's 'Ratcatcher' blew me away when it came out. When I started making short films, I would watch that film over…

— Andrew Haigh

My friends and I make short films. We pretended to rob the Dairy Queen where our friend worked, but someone thought we…

— Josh Hartnett

I've never done a movie in that genre, and I love a lot of those movies. I watched the director's [David Freyne]…

— Ellen Page

I have little art piece, a kind of short film thing I filmed with my friend. It's going to be 20 minutes,…

— Ellery Sprayberry

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

I really didn't want to be boxed into becoming a certain kind of film-maker - becoming the Maori story film-maker because I…

— Taika Waititi

I'm looking to produce more stuff: TV shows, commercials, music videos and short films. I'm building my catalog so I can have…

— Larenz Tate

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

— Jason Reitman

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

— Werner Herzog

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

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

You can write when you're dyslexic, you just can't read it. But I started writing short stories as a child and I…

— Billy Bob Thornton

I was writing short films and I was going through this really, really, really terrible end of a relationship that I didn't…

— Evan Glodell

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

— Felicity Jones

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

— Brett Ratner

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

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

— Andy Serkis

Other countries are open to purchasing foreign short films because they have a market for them.

— Karthik Subbaraj

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

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

— Jason Silva

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

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

— Sajid Khan

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'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

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

— Radhika Apte

I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads…

— Theo James