Quotes by Melanie Laurent

Melanie Laurent

A good director has to be a captain – he has to work with a lot of people every day.

Captains

Directors

People

Because I’ve made a film with such an amazing director as Tarantino, I’m much more conscious of working with good directors from now on, so that’s what’s important to me. I don’t really care about making a big movie – I just want to make good ones.

Care

Directors

Important

Every time a director calls me and says, ‘If you practice a lot in two months, can you be an American?’ And I always tell them, ‘Well, maybe but I’m French. So it’s going to be hard to be someone else.’

Directors

Practice

Two

Every time I play in a movie, I never expect that it’ll be huge. I don’t like thinking about that, because it’s so scary.

Play

Scary

Thinking

Everybody just asks me ‘Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?’ First, I don’t know. Second, I never dreamed about that; I just dreamed about making movies with Tarantino. So if I can make movies with a lot of amazing directors – yes.

Directors

Firsts

Hollywood

For me, it was a lot of pressure to make another movie after ‘Inglourious Basterds’ because I didn’t want to do something wrong. I wanted to have a beautiful project for another American movie.

Beautiful

Pressure

Want

France is an old country that needs to wake up.

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Needs

Wake Up

Holiday? Is like, what? I’m a hyperactive girl, so it may be boring for me to be on the beach doing nothing. I just need to find a place for three weeks and work but sleep in the morning, maybe write a little bit, have a glass of red wine. That’s my perfect holiday.

Beach

Girl

Morning

I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character.

Character

Directors

Stories

I didn’t really want to act. Gerard Depardieu discovered me when I was 14 and asked if I wanted to make movies and I said, ‘Why not?

Said

Want

Why Not

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Quotes by Melanie Laurent

Melanie Laurent

A good director has to be a captain – he has to work with a lot of people every day.

Because I’ve made a film with such an amazing director as Tarantino, I’m much more conscious of working with good directors from now on, so that’s what’s important to me. I don’t really care about making a big movie – I just want to make good ones.

Every time a director calls me and says, ‘If you practice a lot in two months, can you be an American?’ And I always tell them, ‘Well, maybe but I’m French. So it’s going to be hard to be someone else.’

Every time I play in a movie, I never expect that it’ll be huge. I don’t like thinking about that, because it’s so scary.

Everybody just asks me ‘Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?’ First, I don’t know. Second, I never dreamed about that; I just dreamed about making movies with Tarantino. So if I can make movies with a lot of amazing directors – yes.

For me, it was a lot of pressure to make another movie after ‘Inglourious Basterds’ because I didn’t want to do something wrong. I wanted to have a beautiful project for another American movie.

France is an old country that needs to wake up.

Holiday? Is like, what? I’m a hyperactive girl, so it may be boring for me to be on the beach doing nothing. I just need to find a place for three weeks and work but sleep in the morning, maybe write a little bit, have a glass of red wine. That’s my perfect holiday.

I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character.

I didn’t really want to act. Gerard Depardieu discovered me when I was 14 and asked if I wanted to make movies and I said, ‘Why not?

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