Top 55 Short Films Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Short Films Quotes from famous people such as Sajid Khan, Zawe Ashton, Ozwald Boateng, Ben Schwartz, Brit Marling, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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In the late ’80s, as a child, I used to shoot short films on my friend’s wedding camera.
Sajid Khan
If you’re looking for reps, write letters that are short and professional. Make sure you have a really great reel of yourself. If there are friends you know who are making short films, do them – it’s all material for your reel.
Zawe Ashton
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
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
Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting. But I didn’t know you could make a living that way.
Brit Marling
In feature films, I used to be the hero’s friend, a regular character. In short films, I played the hero; I got roles where I could work on my character and performance. They made me aware of myself as an actor.
Vijay Sethupathi
Pixar’s short films convinced Disney that if the company could produce memorable characters within five minutes, then the confidence was there in creating a feature film with those abilities in story and character development.
John Lasseter
I’m looking to produce more stuff: TV shows, commercials, music videos and short films. I’m building my catalog so I can have some fun in between the times that I get to a movie.
Larenz Tate
I love doing features, but it’s a very different ballgame. Sometimes I yearn for short films again, working with a small team, getting my hands on the clay.
Nick Park
I made shorts films, learning the dos and don’ts. Most importantly, I’ve been editing all these short films. Nothing can teach you filmmaking like editing can.
Dhanush
Certainly, I’ve loved musicals for a while, so I did some short films in college that had musical numbers and things like that, so I’ve kind of been obsessed with Fred and Ginger and Vincente Minnelli and Stanley Donen and Jaques Demy forever.
Damien Chazelle
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
I miss the videos that are short films, back when MTV played videos all day.
Matt Skiba
Online content is the new game in the field of entertainment. Web series, short films, independent movies. This new medium has been a boon to both the makers and its viewers.
Shweta Basu Prasad
When I was making short films, I didn’t see a way to give them a wider reach or earn revenue out of it.
Karthik Subbaraj
I made several short films with very little dialogue. I’m still not a fan of talking heads. My stories are told with images as much as possible.
Asif Kapadia
I think that there’s something about short films that just kind of keeps your muscles sharp.
Karyn Kusama
I made three short films of my own which I wrote, produced, directed… you did everything in those days. My favourite one was something I shot on VHS… a little documentary.
Asif Kapadia
Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director.
John Lasseter
My parents have let me do whatever I am interested in. Initially, they were apprehensive, but when they realised that filmmaking was my passion and that I was doing a good job with the short films and the recognition in ‘Naalaya Iyakkunar’ TV show, they supported and encouraged me.
Karthik Subbaraj
In India, we always look at feature films as a progression over short films. But, abroad, people make a living making short films. The revenue might not be as much as in feature films, but the return on investment is good.
Karthik Subbaraj
I acted in a couple friends’s short films and thought I was gonna be really good and mysterious and sexy. And I was just terrible and self-aware.
Max Winkler
I started making my own short films as a way of being able to give myself something to do and to study my craft.
Ruby Rose
I started making little short films with friends, and then I decided I wanted to get into the school play in high school.
Bill Hader
I really didn’t want to be boxed into becoming a certain kind of film-maker – becoming the Maori story film-maker because I had made those short films.
Taika Waititi
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
Some people draw a line between music videos and short films, looking down on music videos as a format, but there’s so much potential in music videos.
Hiro Murai
When I was making short films for the TV show ‘Naalaya Iyakunar,’ I wasn’t just competing but making films that I could potentially show at international festivals.
Karthik Subbaraj
I usually take up short films when I am not tied up with feature films. Short films are easier to work on… because it doesn’t take much of your time. The number of shoot days are lesser as compared to feature films.
Radhika Apte
Television and cable have become the new independent films, in a sense, for writers and actors to gravitate towards. That’s why I like short films, too; I love doing readings, audio books, working with young filmmakers; anything that keeps you from getting blase about yourself or in a rut.
Campbell Scott
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
That's the beauty of short films; their strength lies i

That’s the beauty of short films; their strength lies in delivering a message creatively and simply.
Sanam Saeed
I’ve always been a comedy nerd, and ‘Partners in Crime’ was probably more influential for me than anything else because it was not only standup, but Robert Townsend had those short films.
Baron Vaughn
My friends and I make short films. We pretended to rob the Dairy Queen where our friend worked, but someone thought we were real thieves and called the cops! Soon, the cops burst in with guns drawn!
Josh Hartnett
When you cut from a long shot to a close shot, you’re doing it for a reason, or if you let something stay in long shot for a long take. On the short films, I was teaching myself how to express something personal cinematically, how to use the language of film the best I could.
David Lowery
‘Flip’ is an anthology of four short films, and I am in the one called ‘Massage,’ along with Sandeepa Dhar and Viraj Patel.
Jim Sarbh
Other countries are open to purchasing foreign short films because they have a market for them.
Karthik Subbaraj
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
I worked in a software company in Bangalore and made short films during weekends. I learnt the basics during a one-day workshop called Film Camp Sanjay Nambiar.
Karthik Subbaraj
I was in a play called ‘Hood.’ I was an extra in ‘Passion of the Christ.’ I did corporate videos, commercials, little university short films. Just anything that I could be a part of, really.
Nikita Dutta
Most of music videos were short films – they had dialogue, action sequences. I shot with cranes and helicopters. I wanted to created cinema-like moments.
F. Gary Gray
I used to make short films even as a kid. I used to have a camera and play around with it. So, I was always interested in the process and telling stories. I’ve always wanted to direct.
Dulquer Salmaan
I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology.
Jason Silva
I’m not a great fan of very short films.
Ken Loach
I started learning filmmaking by joining a weekend film school in Bengaluru. I made some amateur short films that got appreciation from people around me.
Karthik Subbaraj
And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really.
Rick Moranis
Be it web series, short films, reality shows, what drives and keeps me in the groove is my work.
Suman Ranganathan
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
I guess short films have a bright future… The advantage is budget.
Anurag Kashyap
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
I started a festival of short films produced for television, and as the secretary of the organisation that ran it I used to work very closely with the state government.
Roopa Ganguly
I started doing non-surf stuff like commercials, short films, and music videos and just started expanding my filmmaking that way. I started doing that more for a career: you know, it was paying the bills, and it was challenging. I was stimulated by it.
Taylor Steele
With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.
Bruce Conner
When you make documentaries or short films, you have to have eyes and ears in the back of your head and on the sides and all around you. I like that in my films.
Bruce Weber
I love film, and I love short films.
Sarah Gadon