Michelle Yeoh Quotes

My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.

Everyone's so used to taking care of actors and directors, but people in the crew are there the longest and working the hardest.

You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.

As an actor on sets, I've always clocked how hard the crew works, how much longer their days are, how much lesser their glory is - and the fact that their commitment to the work and project is unwavering, no matter the budget.

On my first movie, there were three women: the body-makeup girl, the hairdresser, and the secretary of the producer.

In Hollywood, I was used to being on a dirty old sound stage, and the whole crew is just scratching themselves. They don't care who you are.

I don't want to sound like too much of a drama queen! But I'm not going to tell you, 'Oh, it's just so much fun.' It's work [working on film].

What I learned from my go-round with 'In the Heights' is that it's tough to make a movie. In Hollywood, even the people in charge have people in charge.

Movies are hard work. The public doesn't see that. The critics don't see it. But they're a lot of work. A lot of work.

Well, that's the old story I heard about the Jackie Chan films. That, like, Jackie Chan will just keep going and when crew members drop he just replaces them. I don't know if that's true but after having worked in Japan I believe it might be true.

We all know that people who've never been on a film set think it's way more glamorous than the people who work on them.

I think one day I want to be on the other side of the camera-maybe directing.

On the set I never know what day of the week it is.

When Carpenter was shooting 'Vampires' in New Mexico when I was living there, I desperately tried to get a job working on that film, and I couldn't. So my first job as a PA was on a CBS movie of the week that was shooting next door, and whenever I could, I would sneak over so I could watch.

The only difference between working on a huge-budget film and a lesser-budget film, is the quality of lunch and dinner.

I've worked on movies where there's all these people coming and going, and I don't even know who they are.

When I'm shooting, it averages out at a 16-hour day. You have two deadlines everyday - lunch and wrap.

Being on set is really hard because there's craft service.

When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while.

A lot of movie stars don't want to go to TV because of how hard you have to work. You have to be a soldier.

The best part about my job is that I'm pampered and always treated like a Barbie doll on the sets. But the worst part is that I have to work daily without many breaks.

I've been travelling around moving from one movie set to another... it's been back-breaking, but am not complaining.

Whenever you're working on a film or TV set, the hours are very, very long.

The only time I scream is when I see the 5 A.M. start on the call sheet.

I don't want to boast about any contribution, but I was part of the group of people who toiled for the film industry.