Eva Green Quotes

When you work on a movie, especially an independent movie, it's a lot of work to make it! It's not just our job as actors - so many people are working so hard, and even the littlest movie takes a lot of work.

Honestly, when you're making a movie, you never say, 'Oh, this one's going to suck and go straight to video.' When you're in it, you think you're doing the best work you can do. You're surrounded by people who are working hard. Everybody's hopeful.

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

There's never been a mathematical equation that says a good experience making a movie equates to a good movie, or a bad experience on a set is going to lead to a bad movie.

I love making movies. But it's a lot of investing your heart and soul. It can be exhausting.

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

It's hard work making movies. It's like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it's emotional, tense work. If you don't really love it, then it ain't worth it.

I've worked with a lot of great directors.

Working with and collaborating with and for Peter Jackson was an incredible experience because he is such a phenomenal filmmaker.

I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.

No one ever sets out to make a bad movie. There's almost always incredible amount of passion and work put behind any given project. You just have to give it everything you got, and sometimes it works out, and a lot of the times it doesn't.

I think that people should really understand what it takes to make a film.

Making 'Sweetback' took an exorbitant amount of energy and time.

I am so impressed with people who can really make a big movie, a good movie. The amount of work that goes into it is incredible.

When you're working on a film, it's intense and it's very all-consuming. There's not something in particular.

I love actors, and I'm passionate about the creative process of acting and filmmaking.

The only advice I can really give to the young filmmakers is to be persistent, don't give up, and keep watching and making as many movies as you possibly can.

I would even commit seven years to a film for Rajamouli.

Just getting to meet George Lucas was pretty amazing, and then working with him and getting to be part of this process... it's a great responsibility.

Only the filmmakers need to realise your potential.

When you are cleaning, sweeping, swabbing floors and running around for the littlest of things on a shoot for an ad or a documentary, you realize how tough life is behind the camera.

I experienced a lot of things while I was working with Dibakar Banerjee.

We used to do four or five films at a time and were not able to experiment with too many things. But, the heart was in the right place and everybody worked passionately. We had wonderful directors like Bimal Roy, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Raj Kapoor.

Making a movie is, for me, like painting. I just enjoy the care that goes into every brushstroke and the choice of every color. I enjoy the intensity of it.

Any film is a collaborative process, you've got thousands and thousands of people working on it.