7 Quotes by Daniel Lewis

We have our own personal demons to deal with.

I've only been reminded in the last few days constantly that I've let five years pass. I'm not being deliberately obtuse about it, but I wasn't aware of that time passing. I was quite happily engaged in other things. I set out to indulge my curiosity in other things, not just to get away from this work.

It was facilitated by people outside the Department of Education, folks who really had no stake in it. I was interested in a fair process being implemented.

It's a complete illusion, this notion. We create for ourselves this strange delusion that we exchange our lives for someone else's.

I try to honor that bargain that I made with myself that I wouldn't do this work unless I really felt the need to. I just didn't see the point.

I'm not always doing this work, but whatever I'm doing when I'm not doing this work seems to be as much a part of this as anything else.

Being at the center of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence -- the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.