Budget Quote by Ruben Fleischer

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 never intended to become a commercial filmmaker in the first place. What I do requires time and experimentation. Commercial work is often not…

— Marco Brambilla

When I was doing music videos, everybody was very snobbish about music video directors doing commercials. It was all guys from ad agencies.

— David Slade

I always loved films, and when I decided to go to film school, it was with the excuse that I would go into making…

— Yorgos Lanthimos

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 doing commercials when I did commercials. I made a living. I worked in front of a camera. I could do plays for…

— Henry Winkler

I was working in commercials and music videos, always with the goal of working in feature films.

— Ruben Fleischer

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

I've been working my way to doing my first feature film for about ten years. So I went through the commercials route and some…

— Duncan Jones

I make my living by shooting ad-films, and, in fact, that's how I began my career.

— Rajiv Menon

I'm a huge cinemaphile. My interest in filmmaking came out of experimenting with different genres, and I wanted to go back to working in…

— Marco Brambilla

I have been fortunate that my commercials became famous and the best directors have managed to work on my terms. I didn't have to…

— Amrita Rao