Always Quote by Jim Jarmusch

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

— Sanam Saeed

But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have…

— Jane Campion

When you make shorts, people don't get paid. It's mostly about being diplomatic that you're going to do a masterpiece of short cinema.

— Gaspar Noe

When you make a movie, you do it so piecemeal. You're doing it, not only scene by scene, out of order, but shot by…

— Jason Reitman

In fact, sometimes when a short film is done well, you wish that it could be slightly longer.

— Sanam Saeed

My problem has been with purely digital films. I feel the danger there is that the kind of short-cuts you end up having to…

— Rick Heinrichs

I've always been such a fan of short films - in fact, I never considered that I would actually make a feature. I just…

— Sarah Polley

A short film is not a shortened feature film. It has a soul of its own.

— Karthik Subbaraj

When you cut from a long shot to a close shot, you're doing it for a reason, or if you let something stay in…

— David Lowery

There's a film you write, there's a film you shoot, and there's a film that you cut - and they're all different.

— Paul Greengrass

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

— Tahir Raj Bhasin

Movies get found in the editing room. The movie that you make is not always necessarily the movie that comes out of the editing…

— Joe Dante