Short Films Quotes

• 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

  Responsibility, Thinking, Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Creative, Want, Answers

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• 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

  Joy, Different, Film

  Amid Amidi, John Lasseter (2009). “The Art of Pixar Short Films”, Chronicle Books Llc

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• 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

  Waiting Around, Film, Intimate

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• 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

  Mistake, Thinking, Digital

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• Short films don't go too far.

  Matthew McGrory

  Hair, Film

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• 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

  Art, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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

  Anurag Kashyap

  Film, Bright Future, Advantage

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• 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

  Able, Facts, Film

  Interview with Richard Jobson, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2000.

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• 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

  Short Love, Priorities, Film

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

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

  Brett Ratner

  Trying, Comfort, Elements

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Film, Audience

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• 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

  Festivals, Film, Sincere

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• 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

  Years, Daddy, One Day

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

  Andy Serkis

  Film, Lord, Projects

  "Andy Serkis plays dual role in "Hobbit" - Gollum and director". Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.reuters.com. December 12, 2012.

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• 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

  School, Play, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Short Love, Children, Real

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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

  Bill Plympton

  Facts, Film, More Money

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• 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

  Fall, Writing, Views

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• 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

  Writing, Ideas, Want

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

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• 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

  Couple, Passion, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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

  Barry Sonnenfeld

  Cutting, Directors, Finals

  Source: collider.com

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

  Nash Edgerton

  Thinking, Watches, Able

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Beautiful, Real, Agency

  FaceBook post by Stephen Hawking from Nov 12, 2014

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• 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

  Frustrated, Pay, Way

  "Mackenzie Davis Talks WHAT IF, Doing Anything for Her Job, Making Out with Adam Driver, Her Monster-Making Hobby, HALT AND CATCH FIRE and More". Interview with Perri Nemiroff, collider.com. August 7, 2014.

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