Backgrounds Quote by Duncan Jones

When I started trying to become a director, I started shooting low budget short films, 50-dollar music videos, making my own stuff. That eventually…

— Ruben Fleischer

As far as commercials were concerned, I did very few, and I did them only when they gave me carte blanche to them the…

— Sergio Leone

I was aware of the possible biases you could get as a commercial director, like being too concerned about the technical aspects of the…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Commercials are 20 seconds long, so you don't get to experiment with your characters. But in films, you get to try out your acting skills.

— Disha Patani

I have been in advertising and I know my craft well, but ultimately in cinema every scene has to matter, and that has to…

— Rajkumar Hirani

The way it works in commercials is they come to you with the script and then you do the visual, you do the storyboards,…

— Paul W. S. Anderson

On a film, you work with somebody for four months and it's wonderful, but commercials it's like catching up with someone for a beer…

— Greig Fraser

I spent a long time trying to make it in the commercial world hoping that commercials would then lead to movies. That was a…

— Dan Trachtenberg

I have actually directed over thirty plays and about one hundred commercials for cable TV, but have not yet had the opportunity to direct…

— Sid Haig

I like to do commercials that are more than just flogging a product. It needs to have something to say. It's always an opportunity…

— John Hillcoat

Commercials are art, too; they're 30-second movies starring people like me. If you look down on the medium, you're never going to book. If…

— Geneva Carr