Michelle Rodriguez Quotes

That would be getting up at 5 am... I don't understand why film's shoot such brutal hours. I think it'd be worth it to not be so strictly cost-effective and have an 8 hour day. The film's would benefit in the end.

Surely, anyway, a working day of eight or nine hours which is not split by a nap is simply too much for a human being to take, day in, day out, and particularly so in hot weather.

Eight hours daily labor is enough for any human being

You know, here in America we only work half a day—12 hours.

I work from about 8:30 A.M. until 7 P.M., five days a week, when I'm not sneaking off to buy another bar of chocolate.

I don't work more than 8 hours a day. At times, people get angry with me because of this, but I can't work more than that.

Today, the average Korean works a thousand hours more a year than the average German. A thousand. ... That is the end of the Great Divergence.

Larry Kasdan wanted us all there, all the time, even if we weren't filming.

The French 35 hour work week is a bribe given to the French people by a grateful government

The 35-hour week has from the moment of its inception been a massive mistake. We need to return to people the joy of work.

This is 1930, not 1898. We have not only arrived at a 44-hour week but in this machine age we are arriving at the time when all workers will soon be given a 40-hour week.

We must have modern conditions to meet modern machinery. As labor-saving devices are installed and used for production we must necessarily shorten the number of hours per day, and we are now at the state where we will necessarily have to come to a five day week because, gentlemen, you cannot have prosperity unless you have employment.

We’ve got to end the 3 day work week.

I work at night, starting at around 10 o'clock and working until 2 or 3 in the morning. I do that usually five days a week. In Berkeley, I have an office behind our house that I share with my wife, who works more in the daytime.

Teachers complain a lot about how tough their job is. But, you know, the day begins in most schools at nine o'clock, ends at 3.30 P.M. They have six weeks' holiday during the summer, two weeks' holiday at Easter and at Christmas. Yes, they don't just work when they're at school, but even so, compared to a lot of other jobs, it's not that tough.

There are some times when you make films and you travel places, and the take that people in the business have is that the worst way to see a city is to shoot there, because you work these long 12, 13 and 14-hour days, and you go home to the hotel, you eat, and you pass out.

It was fun working with Will Smith; it was fun working with Alex Proyas, who is another sci-fi guy with 'Dark City.'

Nobody should be working 18 hours a day for a whole year or any period of time.

I have more time to work; I just do. Because once your kids are up and running, that frees you up a good 20, 30, hours a week.

I think the time has come when the American people understand that federal employees need to work an 8-hour day just like everybody else.

In our country, there must be two time zones to save working hours. Why we don't have it, I have been talking about this issue for a long time.

There are times when I am supposed to get off work by seven but only reach home by midnight because of production delays.

I've always admired how closely someone like C.V. Kumar works with the creative team to promote a film.

On American sets, you work 12-, 14-, 16-hour days sometimes. All that volume over a short course of time can actually be less conducive to telling a story accurately.

Even if I am working 12 hours a day, I want to be working, not sitting in my room for eight hours waiting for my shot.