You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film - you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Films exhaust me, they do, and I often want nothing more to do with them, but I'm continually surprised at the resurgence… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
The theater is a need for me. It's a terrible attraction, something I'm compelled to do. And one derives a form of… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Film has become such a central part of our culture now that I think sometimes too great a weight is placed upon… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film - you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
I spend many months in apparently listless rumination out of which I hope something will emerge. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
