Quotes Daniel Day-Lewis

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was...

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of...

How people are around a director, it really does affect ever...

I don't know what impression you might have of the way I liv...

I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the...

I find it easier to work when it's quiet....

I hate wasting people's time....

I just enjoy kidding myself, I suppose, for a period of time...

I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey....

I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that...

I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusi...

I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would ...

I tend to respond to that bizarre compulsion, but it could e...

I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not rea...

I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace...

I try to honor that bargain that I made with myself that I w...

I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some ...

I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experi...

I'm not always doing this work, but whatever I'm doing when ...

I'm very often still very much alive for that other being an...

If people take an interest in you and they think there's hal...

It's a complete illusion, this notion. We create for ourselv...

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting...

Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was...

My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot....