“There is no such thing as civilized hours in the motion picture business”
Richard Zanuck, producer
“In all my years in this business, I’ve never had dinner with my family when I’m working”
Ken Zander, DP
“For somebody who doesn’t have regular work they are not going to complain about their hours because they can’t afford to”
Annette Benning, actor
“We kept one group up just 24 hours, and we got one group drunk. And we compared the sleepy patients with the
group that got drunk and they essentially had the same performance”
Dr. Powell
“Certainly in the business that we are in, there is a great tendency to overwork people”
Julia Roberts, actor
“This is the most significant terrible thing going on in the industry today that basically isn’t really being covered”
Leonard Kaldy, journalist
“It IS an issue of life and death”
Frank Pierson, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
“Excessive hours have a terrible effect on people’s creativity. Someone’s got to pay some attention to this”
Paul Newman, actor
“It’s soley an American thing, the long hours”
Billy Crystal, actor
“One of the biggest problems in our society is that almost everyone has no awareness of how sleep deprivation works”
Dr. William Dement
“We are the only group of industrialized workers in the world fighting for a 14-hour day”
Michael Everett, electrician