Able Quote by Sergio Leone

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

Well, not totally because over the years I've probably done 2,700 commercials. So, I'm always ticking. And in a way that was a huge…

— Ridley Scott

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 haven't done many commercials, and I'm very picky about it because it comes down to creative control.

— Billy Eichner

I never did commercials. Not that I didn't want to, but because I can't. I am just so bad at it.

— Emily Hampshire

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 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

I like alternating commercials with movies, because it keeps the pace up. You can't slack on a commercial. You need to go fast. That's…

— Paul W. S. Anderson

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

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

Many times I'll improvise it, which isn't done a lot in movies or commercials. But a lot of my commercials are improvised.

— Christopher Guest

I did about 10-12 national commercials and then got one line parts in things like 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and the show 'The Unit.' Got…

— Anonymous