Day Lewis
Day Lewis
people actors needs
Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
numbers people know-me
To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.
rumination months
I spend many months in apparently listless rumination out of which I hope something will emerge.
cabinets spirit makers
If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
past feels compelled
I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.
lucky
I've been very lucky.
musical fans bigs
I'm not actually a big musical fan.
american-movie wanted heresy
Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
weekend dublin oscars
You've just provided me with the makings of one hell of a weekend in Dublin.
people acting monologues
Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.
son pay-the-price should
I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.
thinking analysis culture
Film has become such a central part of our culture now that I think sometimes too great a weight is placed upon it in terms of scrutiny and analysis. There's a lot of rather specious professorial stuff that swirls around films.
warrior roles
I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.
drawing rooms england
England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.