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. Daniel Day-Lewis More Quotes by Daniel Day-Lewis More Quotes From Daniel Day-Lewis I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people. Daniel Day-Lewis watches people When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it. Daniel Day-Lewis bed business needs 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 on the details that are not at all at the centre of the work. Daniel Day-Lewis focus talking people I suppose that anyone who does any kind of creative work some time in their life - especially as you grow into middle age! - you come to a time where you really question more and more frequently, whether you have anything else to offer. And at its worst, you feel utterly bereft of whatever creative force it takes to do that work. Daniel Day-Lewis creative age doe If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up! Daniel Day-Lewis milkshakes drink rooms I'm woefully one-track-minded. Daniel Day-Lewis track 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 I don’t like to rehearse. And I couldn’t understand how you could go through eight weeks of rehearsal, without exhausting every possibility. To the point where, you know, you would just lie gasping on the floor! Daniel Day-Lewis rehearsal eight lying How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie. Daniel Day-Lewis movie directors people I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious. Daniel Day-Lewis obvious hate littles There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment. Daniel Day-Lewis defining-moments mark wanted Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful. Daniel Day-Lewis be-grateful grateful There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing. Daniel Day-Lewis decision made character Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing. Daniel Day-Lewis absurdity serious For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites. Daniel Day-Lewis docks jobs years Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect. Daniel Day-Lewis audio mimicry historical Just stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far. I will find you! Daniel Day-Lewis movie-love romantic long 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. Daniel Day-Lewis wish feels thinking I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk. Daniel Day-Lewis drunk determination years I spend many months in apparently listless rumination out of which I hope something will emerge. Daniel Day-Lewis rumination months
