The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Short things are short all over and long things are long all over.
I didn't want to be short. I've tried to pretend that being a short guy didn't matter. I tried to make up for being short by affecting a strut, by adopting the voice of a much bigger man, by spending more money than I made, by tipping double or triple at bars and restaurants, by dating tall, beautiful women.
Funnily enough, I never thought of myself as being short. Being an actor has made me much more conscious of it than I would have been otherwise.
I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't really bother me.
The short hair fits my personality more. I think maybe, with long hair, it was a role - I was playing dress-up a bit.
The story is always in service to the characters, and is only as long or short, or neat or ragged as it needs to be.
I had short hair for a while, but I ended up loving it.
Bigger stories are made out of longer acquaintance with fact and character, but I also love the tiny stories in which almost everything has to be inferred and imagined.
I could never write a book where the point-of-view character was a short person, because I just can't imagine what that's like.