Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Doe, Film, Spectators

• 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.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Creativity, Night, Two

  City Limits, April 07, 1988.

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

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Firsts, Innocence, Film

  City Limits magazine, London, April 7, 1988.

• Films exhaust me, they do, and I often want nothing more to do with them, but I'm continually surprised at the resurgence of the impulse to come back and do it all over again.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Want, Film, Resurgence

• I'm not sure you learn anything on film sets.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Film, Not Sure, Film Set

  "Age of experience". Interview with Burhan Wazir, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2002.

• 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.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Thinking, Weight, Stuff

• I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Indulge In, Retreat, Film

• Leaving a role is a terrible sadness. The last day of the shooting is surreal. Your soul, your body and your mind are not ready at all to see the end of this experience. In the following months after a film shoot, one feels a deep sense of void.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Sadness, Leaving, Soul

• The theater is a need for me. It's a terrible attraction, something I'm compelled to do. And one derives a form of nourishment from the theater which you can never get from films. Making films weakens you in some way. With the theater, the work itself is a regenerative process.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Film, Terrible, Attraction

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Fog, Together, Film

• I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Other Worlds, Long, Alive

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