Ad Quote by Robert Downey Sr

I made commercials for corporations like Volkswagen and Coca-Cola, but I was always the one to write them, too, which was a very good…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials.

— Devon Sawa

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

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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

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 loved cutting together simple commercials about margarine or soft drinks - all kinds of silly products - but I tried to make the…

— Renny Harlin

I learned about making films by going into advertising, making commercials.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

My first job was an AFI short film, 'Chasing Daylight,' when I was 11, and I made a couple of commercials that never aired.

— Jason Dolley

I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials.

— Helen Reddy

A lot of the commercials that I was doing were very slice-of-life, emotional, documentary-style, not big and cinematic and ultimately like the kind of…

— Dan Trachtenberg

Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in.

— River Phoenix

I started with commercials - for shampoo, pancakes, insurance, Volvo. I did a Lux soap commercial with Sarah Jessica Parker. And I got a…

— Stephanie Szostak