Quotes About Expression

I've learned that I really want to shoot short films on a short schedule. There can be very good films that run 110 minutes, but 90 minutes is beautiful.

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.

I did a couple of short films when I was in Scotland.

Whenever I have short ,it's important for me to be inspired by people with short hair.

I've always written short stories.

I like short stories.

I write short stories. I write every day.

With short stories, you can always see the whole, but it's just so hard to get everything you want into that small form.

I wrote poetry and short stories. I would send them to magazines; they wouldn't get in. But short stories are how I found philosophy and how I'd understand the world.

Eventually, I just want to write wavy little short stories.

I didn't really start to write until I was almost 30, and I started with the short stories.

Short stories can make for really good adaptations.

I've been writing short stories since I was a little girl.

The short story, on the other hand, is the perfect American form.

The short story has been here and is here and will be here as long as we are.

I think when you're 17 and you're angry, you're angry about very short-term things. And there's nothing wrong about writing that record. It's a very real record to write; it's the realest record I could write when I was 17. The problem is, when you're 28, it's not the same thing; it can be a put-on.

There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.

You can tell a lot in shorthand.

With a lot of those 'S.N.L.' shorts, we would do them just as we wanted to do them and then beep out the bad words. Since it was late night T.V., they let us get away with a lot.

I love film and, particularly, shorts. You don't get to see them often, and they're a great little form, like a short story.

What kind of shorts I wear has nothing to do with music.

I don't like dressing up. If it were up to me, I'd step out in my shorts and ganji and chappals. The maximum I'd wear are my white shirt and my blue shorts and my shades and I'd step out.

When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film.

The luxury of television is that you get more than one shot at who you think the guy is that you're playing.