Short Films Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Thinking, Laughing, Stuff

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• 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

  Song, School, Kids

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• 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

  School, Years, Two

  "James Franco Talks ‘The Broken Tower’ and Addresses His Critics". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. April 23, 2012.

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• 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

  Brother, College, Texas

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

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• 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

  Running, Brother, Men

  "Why Looper is director Rian Johnson's best film yet". Interview with Peter Rubin, www.wired.com. September 27, 2012.

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• 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

  Art, Iraq, Busy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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

  Tools, Firsts, Emotion

  "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.

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• 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

  Stars, Long, Needs

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• 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

  Art, Kind, Film

  Source: hollywoodlife.com

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• 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

  Country, Media, Creative

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• 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

  Creative, Boss, Challenges

  The MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. October 5, 2017.

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• 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

  Writing, Mirrors, Years

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• 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

  Years, Two, Paris

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• 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

  Ideas, Pay, Taste

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

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• 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

  Opportunity, College, Acting

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

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• 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

  Rooms, Tough, Film

  Interview with Kristin Hahn, www.elle.com. August 4, 2009.

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• 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

  Art, Arrogant, Next

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

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• 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

  Thinking, Heartbreaking, Genius

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  Fun, Real, Mean

  Source: www.fanbolt.com

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• 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

  Together, Pieces, Littles

  "Meera Menon and the Women of Wall Street". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2016.

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• 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

  Song, Eye, Brain

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Design

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Thinking, Missing, Singing

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• 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

  Song, Body, Months

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• 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

  Home, Writing, Phones

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

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