It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.
Michael Apted

Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises.
Johnny Rotten

No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds.
Red Skelton

Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.
Kate Adie

Now you know those trick candles that you blow out and a couple of seconds.
Tim Vine

One can see that a canvas is six feet by eight feet, say, quite accurately. But you can spend two minutes and think it's five, or thirty seconds and it's just a different bed for activities there.
Robert Rauschenberg

One of the jokes on our flight is that, if we have a normal entry day going, the plan is for me... to actually take the orbiter first and fly it for maybe 10 or 15 seconds and then hand it on over to Scooter.
Duane G. Carey

People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
Pat Metheny

Same thing, like my commercials are often times really funny because I tend to find 30 seconds is a really good amount of time to tell a joke.
Alex Winter

So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
Sally Ride

Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.
Allen Klein

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
Sam Levenson

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
Ray Bradbury

The day is coming when, in 45 seconds, you can download a movie.
Brian Roberts

The difficult thing about a pop record is that you're given guidelines: it has to have 3 choruses, and then it must be between 3 minutes fifteen seconds and three minutes forty-five seconds.
Duncan Sheik

The flight was extremely normal... for the first 36 seconds then after that got very interesting.
Pete Conrad

The hours, minutes and seconds stand as visible reminders that your effort put them all there. Preserve until your next run, when the watch lets you see how Impermanent your efforts are.
Joe Henderson

The New Age? It's just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.
James Randi

The records fell easily at first. Dozens of seconds peeled away with every running of a course, and I could hardly wait for the next chance to improve.
Joe Henderson

The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.
Lenny Bruce