A biography for Daniel Day-Lewishasn’t been written yet.
“My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.”
“It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.”
“I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.”
“I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.”
“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 a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.”
“I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.”
“I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.”
“The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.”
“I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.”
“How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.”
“I depleted myself to the point where I had nothing left.”
“I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.”
“I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.”
“A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.”
“It must be hard interviewing actors.”
“I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.”
“I hate wasting people's time.”
“We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal.”
“Actors should never give interviews.”
“The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.”