Ryuichi Sakamoto Quotes

When I work, it can be a 16-hour day.

You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.

I basically work all the time.

On a movie, you often work fourteen-, sixteen-hour days, six days a week, for six months. It is so easy to let up because of fatigue.

You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone's tired, things get on top of them.

When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'

If you had to work 14 hour days, Mondays to Fridays, then you have to keep Saturdays and Sundays sacred.

I worked 120 hours a week for eight years. That's 20 to 22 hours a day every day and one week I only got 15 hours sleep.

I work really long days and I work seven day weeks.

For months, I slept at work, even though I had an apartment. I'd fall asleep on the floor at 4:30 A.M. By 7 A.M., I was up and ready to start teaching every class.

If you're in a company, you're dancing from 9 a.m. till 7 in the evening, and then you go home and get in a hot tub and get some Epsom salts and try to get your body goin' again. There's no social life, no anything.

I literally have meetings at eight o'clock in the morning, and I finish at nine o'clock at night. It sounds pathetic, but I don't even have time to go shopping.

I have hardly seen my baby for six weeks; have been at the office from nine A.M. to eleven P.M. regularly.

Normally, I work 18 hours a day.

I think I'm chronically exhausted.

I work 110-hour weeks.

I have gone long stretches of working 60 to 80 hours per week.

It is true I work 16 hours a day.

I can't work 12 hours a day, every day for too long before it burns out.

I am used to working long hours with no sleep.

Honestly, all I ever do is work.

My buddies are like, 'You live the most amazing life!' Well, I'm working like a dog. I come home most nights and pass out on the couch.

I usually work 16-hour days.

I work virtually every waking hour.

I'm working over 80 hours a week and have to keep on track.