Daniel Day-Lewis

I have always been intrigued by these lives I have never experienced.

How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.

I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.

You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.

I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.

I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.

I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.

Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.

In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.

There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that.

I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.

How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?