186 Quotes by Daniel Day-Lewis

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing

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

Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.

There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.

The word Amendment itself is an encouraging thing, isn't it? Because an amendment, it tells of a system of government that allows for the improvement of itself. Just move forward a little bit, one day at a time.

I suppose that anyone who does any kind of creative work some time in their life - especially as you grow into middle age! - you come to a time where you really question more and more frequently, whether you have anything else to offer. And at its worst, you feel utterly bereft of whatever creative force it takes to do that work.

It must be hard interviewing actors.

I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.

The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.