Short Films Quotes:

Short films don't go too far.

- Matthew McGrory

topic: Hair, Film, Short Films

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 as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem.

- Jane Campion

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Responsibility, Thinking, Giving, Short Films

Short film: you can be poetic and you don't have to answer anything. You can make whatever you want. You have creative freedom with short film.

- Taika Waititi

topic: Creative, Want, Answers, Short Films, Creative Freedom

A gem of a short film has a sense of pure joy in animation that is different from anything you see in a feature film.

- John Lasseter

topic: Joy, Different, Film, Pure Joy, Short Films

I love doing short films because they're much more intimate and there's far less waiting around than on the bigger films.

- Natalia Tena

topic: Waiting, Film, Intimate, Short Films

I think it's a mistake for young filmmakers to just buy digital equipment and shoot a feature. Make short films first, make your mistakes and learn from them.

- Jason Reitman

topic: Mistake, Thinking, Firsts, Short Films

I think the power of the short film is incredibly underrated. It is way easier to get someone to watch a 15-minute film then a full-length feature. In those 15 minutes you have the opportunity to express your voice as an artist and hopefully connect with your audience. If you are trying to be a first time feature director then a short film that demonstrates you have a grasp on the themes and concepts of the movie you want to direct is a no-brainer. Whether they are collaborators or potential investors, filmmaking is a visual art form so you obviously need visuals to show them!

- Nicholas Ozeki

topic: Art, Opportunity, Thinking, Short Films, No Brainer

I guess short films have a bright future... The advantage is budget.

- Anurag Kashyap

topic: Film, Bright Future, Advantage, Future Is Bright, Short Films

I wanted to prove that I could do something, so I made a short film. That was in fact my main concern, to be able to show that I could do one.

- Luc Besson

topic: Able, Facts, Film, Short Films

There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.

- David Lynch

source: Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. March 10, 2006.

topic: Short Love, Priorities, Film, Short Films

When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.

- Brett Ratner

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Trying, Comfort, Elements, Short Films

I've always been such a fan of short films - in fact, I never considered that I would actually make a feature. I just thought I wanted to make shorts for the rest of my life. They are a lot harder to have shown and a lot harder to find and see as an audience, but I don't know. It's just a form that I really love. I was just making them for the process, but ultimately, I did get them into festivals, and they did end up on television, and they had as much of a life as short films can.

- Sarah Polley

source: Source: film.avclub.com

topic: Short Films

Before my commercial success, I had difficulty doing what I wanted, but my sincere short films always won prizes in festivals. So I was ready for larger successes.

- Michel Ocelot

topic: Festivals, Film, Sincere, Short Films

I remember when I was like 19 years old and I started a desk calendar company to pay for my first short film, just so I could say one day that my daddy didn't pay for my first short film. And I really established myself in the film festival world.

- Jason Reitman

topic: Years, Daddy, One Day, Short Films, Film Festivals

I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects.

- Andy Serkis

source: Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

topic: Film, Lord, Projects, Videogame, Short Films

I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.

- Theo James

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: School, Play, Film, Short Films, School Plays

You can write when you're dyslexic, you just can't read it. But I started writing short stories as a child and I found the short story format a real nice one. I love short stories and I love short documentaries or short films of any kind.

- Billy Bob Thornton

topic: Short Love, Children, Real, Short Films, Writing Short

Im very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features.

- Bill Plympton

topic: Facts, Film, More Money, Short Films

It's funny: I put money into short films, and I put really good actors in it, and I write some stuff that's really funny, and I'll get, like, a million views. But to the right of me, there will be a video of a kitten that falls into a toilet bowl, and it's three seconds long, and it will get 25 million views.

- Ben Schwartz

topic: Fall, Writing, Views, Short Films

I was writing short films and I was going through this really, really, really terrible end of a relationship that I didn't want to be going through. It was too much for me to process and all of a sudden I had this idea for my first feature film and I knew right away I had to start writing it.

- Evan Glodell

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Writing, Ideas, Want, Short Films, Writing Short

I think I've found my passion in life. I'm going to direct a couple of short film on hiatus. That's what I really want to do.

- Matt Barr

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Couple, Passion, Thinking, Hiatus, Short Films

I'm an unusual director in that my cut is usually shorter then the final released film. I like short films.

- Barry Sonnenfeld

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Cutting, Directors, Finals, Short Films

I think it's great to be able to go and watch a short film before you watch a feature.

- Nash Edgerton

topic: Thinking, Watches, Able, Short Films

Please join me in applauding the ESA - European Space Agency’s historic efforts with the Rosetta Mission and landing a spacecraft on rotating comet. It may seem like a work of fiction, but it is very real, very impressive, and will help us to further uncover the mysteries surrounding the formation of the solar system. They made a beautiful short film using an imaginary landscape to illustrate today’s historic feat.

- Stephen Hawking

source: FaceBook post by Stephen Hawking from Nov 12, 2014

topic: Beautiful, Real, Agency, Spacecraft, Short Films

I don't just act to pay my rent. I really like doing it, so I get frustrated when I don't get to do it all the time, so short films are a really great way to be doing it and working with your friends, working on smaller, more specific things without limiting yourself in other ways.

- Mackenzie Davis

topic: Frustrated, Pay, Way, Short Films, Limiting Yourself

I always think it's just best to just make stuff and to carry on making stuff, even if it's not off your own back, because that's the only way... especially as a comedy writer, I make short films and then show them to live audience, so if they're laughing you know you're doing something right.

- Alice Lowe

source: Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

topic: Thinking, Laughing, Stuff, Short Films

A kid now can practically record a song or edit a short film on his way to school. I think that will produce, perhaps, more less-interesting things - or you'll have to search more to find the interesting things. But I also think it's exciting.

- Michael Pitt

topic: Song, School, Kids, Short Films

When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.

- James Franco

topic: School, Years, Two, Short Films

My roommate in college in Austin, Texas, was Wes Anderson. Wes always wanted to be a director. I was an English major in college, and he got us to work on a screenplay together. And then, in working on the screenplay, he wanted my brother, Luke, and me to act in this thing. We did a short film that was kind of a first act of what became Bottle Rocket.

- Owen Wilson

source: Interview with Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 15, 2016.

topic: Brother, College, Texas, Short Films, Austin Texas

Back before 'Brick,' I wrote a short film that I never ended up shooting: hit men in the present who work for a mob in the future who send their victims back in time. A guy is sent his future self, he lets him run, and the whole short was them chasing each other across the city. That sat in a drawer for 10 years until after I made 'Brothers Bloom.

- Rian Johnson

topic: Running, Brother, Men, Short Films, Future Self

I didn't start publishing literary texts until I had left Iraq. At the Academy [of Cinematic Arts] I was busy with short films.

- Hassan Blasim

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Art, Iraq, Busy, Short Films

Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.

- Ozwald Boateng

source: "A Conversation With Fashion Icon Ozwald Boateng on Style, Africa, and His New Film A Man’s Story". Interview with Govindini Murty, Jason Apuzzo, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 3, 2012.

topic: Tools, Firsts, Emotion, Short Films

Alternate between short films, long form films, with or without stars, small budget or big budget films. Basically a filmmaker needs to be flexible.

- Marion Vernoux

topic: Stars, Long, Needs, Short Films

I have little art piece, a kind of short film thing I filmed with my friend. It's going to be 20 minutes, and we're going to submit it into festivals but also going to art galleries.

- Ellery Sprayberry

source: Source: hollywoodlife.com

topic: Art, Kind, Film, Short Films

I someday hope to find the time and coin to invest more of my creative energy towards the visual media side of releasing music. I'd love to make short film videos pushing the conventional standards of what a country music video can be.

- Sturgill Simpson

topic: Country, Media, Creative, Short Films

I'm going to continue to make short films. I love making shorts. I don't have a boss. There's no boss telling me what I can and can't do. I find that it's incredibly creative and challenging to just keep doing that.

- Todd Strauss-Schulson

topic: Creative, Boss, Challenges, Short Films

I did the drawing and writing - for five years. I made a lot of short films the whole while and I made a promise to myself in front of the mirror that I would stop drawing when I signed my first contract for a feature film.

- Patrice Leconte

source: Source: www.indiewire.com

topic: Short Films

While I was doing the residency in Paris, I found out that I was chosen as one of the five winners of the Focus Features Africa First Program. All this happened less than a year after I made my first two short films.

- Chika Anadu

source: Source: blogs.indiewire.com

topic: Years, Two, Paris, Short Films, Residency

Go out and make something that reflects your interests, your taste, and your ideas. No one will pay you to make something until you have a few things you can show that you've directed. I got my start by making short films on my own.

- Joseph Kosinski

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Ideas, Pay, Taste, Short Films

After college I funded my short films with acting roles in film and TV. I learned my craft through the great opportunities British television gave me as a director.

- Justin Chadwick

source: "INTERVIEW | “The First Grader” Director Aims to Uplift and Make You Think". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. May 10, 2011.

topic: Opportunity, College, Acting, Short Films, British Television

Room 10 [a short film she codirected with Andrea Buchanan] nailed my personal theme: love and choosing to stay in the room when the going gets tough.

- Jennifer Aniston

topic: Rooms, Tough, Film, Andrea, Short Films

I'm not so arrogant to consider mine the only legitimate art form. I can't in one breath make a fuss about someone compartmentalizing music into genre and then in the next accuse advertising and short film of not being art.

- Brandi Carlile

source: "Interrogating Brandi Carlile: I Knew ‘That Wasn’t Me’ Was Our ‘Let It Be‘". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2012.

topic: Art, Arrogant, Next, Short Films, Compartmentalizing

Film maker Andi Olsen has a wonderful short film called Where the Smiling Ends. She waited at the Trevi Fountain in Rome and filmed the tourists only at the moment after their photos had been snapped, the moment their smiles dissolved. It's genius and heartbreaking. I think about her film when I explore the places the strips malls meet the wild world they are eating up.

- Samantha Hunt

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Thinking, Heartbreaking, Genius, Short Films

Who knows whats going to happen with whole Internet Web series thing. I mean, obviously people are spending a lot more time on their computer.The great thing about it is so many short films have been done over the time and there is not a real, there is not a venue for them because everybody goes to see a feature length film so it really is a great vehicle to do these kind of short creative pieces, so its kind of fun to be a part of that and kind of see what can happen from that. But trailblazer, I don't know. I mean, that's a pretty fancy word.

- Tony Hale

source: Source: www.fanbolt.com

topic: Fun, Real, Mean, Short Films

I always knew I wanted to make films, but just didn't quite know how to start. I was making little short films with my friends but I wasn't quite sure how to put those pieces together for myself.

- Meera Menon

topic: Together, Pieces, Littles, Short Films

The problem with working with a record label is they maybe a song I want to make a video for that they will refuse to make a video for because they don't see that song as a single. And I found that very frustrating. I realised what I was doing was making these short films for the blind. They were films and all you had to do was put some headphones on and close your eyes and listen to my voice and you'd be able to visualise the images that I'm putting into your brain. And so I started calling what I was doing 'films for the blind'.

- Ben Drew

topic: Song, Eye, Brain, Short Films

Most people assume because I'm an actor that's all I know about and care about, I'm actually a camera geek and a film geek. I grew up making short films the same time I was acting. For me, it's a motion picture, not a play. I'm just as interested in what the camera department is doing and world building through costume design and production design as I am in acting. I think all good directors do that whether they're an actor or not.

- Matt Ross

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Thinking, People, Design, Short Films

Overall I think the show went well, kudos to Miss Jeanie It was well rounded. From artwork to singing, to spoken word to short films, I think it definitely stimulated the audience's senses.

- Angie Brown

topic: Thinking, Missing, Singing, Well Rounded, Short Films

Body Electric... It is the first song from my new short film called #‎ Tropico that is coming out in the end of the month.

- Lana Del Rey

topic: Song, Body, Months, Short Films

As a performer, you can't just sit around waiting for the phone to ring. You have to write and develop projects for yourself, because casting people aren't always going to see you the way you want to be seen. Write a one-person show, shoot a short film, do plays, whatever - activity breeds activity. No one's interested in a stay-at-home actress.

- Wendi McLendon-Covey

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Home, Writing, Phones, Stay At Home, Short Films