Eva Green Quotes

You have to make films you feel strongly about. And then hope you can find the audience.

I only make those films that I would love to watch.

If you go out and make a show and put your heart on the line every time, the people will respond to that and the promoter won't be able to say anything.

I think, at the end of the day, it comes down to authenticity and creating what you love.

If you make music with business in your head, it'll show. I make it from the heart. There's a difference.

I didn't want to do the whole, get the hottest person thing. I wanted to make sure every record felt right.

I refused to wear make-up on TV. I wanted my music to be heard.

I'm just excited that I get to put out the music I love versus music just for the sake of it.

There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.

I don't have this feeling like, 'Oh, I want to live in the United States and make movies and become famous just because the money is here.' I like to make movies that tell stories that I care about.

If you make something with love and, you know, passion and you tell a real story, I think it will always find an audience somehow, you know.

I'd love to do films, but I'd feel bad in my gut if I did anything just for the money. I want to wait for something I'm really passionate about, even if I don't work for a year.

I don't want to do stories that don't have a heart. I'm just not going to be satisfied with stories where I can't be passionate about the subject, where I can't make a difference.

My focus is my art, and that's what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I've turned down many things that I just didn't believe in.

I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something.

Every script I've written and every series I've produced have expressed the things I most deeply believe.

People ask whether I put the politics first, journalism first or the comedy first; it doesn't really matter. I'm just playing with the cards that I have been dealt because I really love doing what I do.

I cannot do a film I don't believe in, however safe it might be.

The only thing I'm looking for in life is incredible passion and honest love, no matter what options are on the table. All I really operate on is the way I feel in my heart when it comes to love.

The way I choose projects is based on what I think is most real and most interesting, not on what's paying the most money or what's most popular.

I try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that's all that matters.

When I write a book... it's the same essential approach to music as with books. It has to be something I want to hear or read. Hopefully the audience comes along, since that's the only way you can write righteously. I have to ask, 'What do I want to hear?' not 'What do people want to hear?'

I came to the industry with wide eyes and an open heart thinking I was going to make a few films that really meant something that I could pour myself into.

I gotta make a living. I make no bones about that. Most actors do. But within that context, I've never not tried to make something as fresh and alive as I possibly could make it.

The only way for me to be an artist is to be honest in my craft. If I veer from that, I'm not giving the investors what they want. Sometimes it's my job as an artist to know what I want to do, even when the fans tell me different.