- Born
- Birth nameNolan Henry Schmidt
- Height5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
- Nolan Schmidt was born to John and Deborah Schmidt in Seguin, Texas. When he was growing up, he was inspired by some of his favorite films to start filmmaking. He began his film career with his amateur horror short, "Reaper Island," in 2008, and got his first award in 2009 for his film, "That's My Pizza!" He continues to make films to this day with his small film company, NHS Films.
- IMDb mini biography by: Nolan Schmidt
- As of March 2013, Schmidt is a member of the Libertarian Party. He was a supporter of the Republican Party from 2000 to 2004, and the Democratic Party from 2004 to 2013. After taking the World's Smallest Political Quiz and saw that it put him as a Hard-Core Libertarian, he decided to join the Libertarian Party.
- Schmidt grew up with Asperger's Syndrome, which is a part of the Autism Spectrum Disorder, and was an element put in his 2012 short, Innocent Dreams.
- Schmidt was inspired to become a filmmaker after watching the works of Quentin Tarantino.
- Schmidt considers Quentin Tarantino, Stanley Kubrick, and Ralph Bakshi as his top three favorite filmmakers. Many of his other favorite filmmakers include Trey Parker, Mel Brooks, Hayao Miyazaki, Oliver Stone, Steven Spielberg, Kevin Smith, Peter Jackson, Francis Ford Coppola, Alfred Hitchcock, John Waters, and Melvin Van Peebles.
- Schmidt's favorite films include Pulp Fiction, A Clockwork Orange, The Wizard of Oz, Wizards, and Psycho.
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