Day Lewis
Day Lewis
sticks cameras preference
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.
actors hard
It must be hard interviewing actors.
breathe abraham
It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.
tangled trying stories
I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.
vocation felt
I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.
wish lifetime colleagues
I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.
talking people focus
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.
way west sun
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.
jobs grateful thinking
As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.'
inspiring mother thinking
When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.
people might way
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.
creativity night two
You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film - you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up.
thinking wish feels
When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.
knowing finding-yourself allies
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.