Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes

I'm learning more and more to share creativity with the crew and actors. A film crew is more powerful if you listen to them, but it does make my job more tough because I have to listen.

The film I like the best is always the one I'm working on now or next.

When I go into making a movie, personally, I don't try to bring other pieces of movies with me.

I think about my films for a long time, maybe years, but I write them in days.

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night.

Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to and I see another movie I want to make.

A film takes a lot of time, and yet not enough to share with the people you're making the movie with, I think.

I'm anxious to make another film.

I make more movies than I see.

I love making films more than anything, but it's tough.

I love writing. I think writing and directing go hand in hand.

To make personal movies that you are the author of, is quite a difficult thing. It takes a lot of stamina.

My background is in largely in theatre and acting. I grew up in a town with a well-respected Shakespeare Festival, and I fell in with some kids whose parents worked there. We staged all-kid versions of 'Hamlet', 'Cymbeline', a few others. All the while, I was making short films; monster movies, slapstick comedies, claymation.

Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.

You have a soft spot in your heart for each movie, and you're doing certain things. You're learning as you're going, as a director, and each movie is its own entity.

I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.

I've been writing and wanting to direct for a long time.

I'm trying to make as many films as I can.

I like to be in a different place when I make a movie so that I can't really focus on anything else, and that is your world.

I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-the-moon in love with it. The audience, they spend 90 minutes with it, but for you, it's anywhere between a year and a half to three years of your life, every day, working on it.

I love the work, I love being in front of the camera and working with actors and directors and creating something. For me, it's like learning everyday.

Making movies is both entirely ludicrous and incredibly hard. It's a preposterous way to spend your time. You give up a lot for the privilege of doing it, and one of the things you get are relationships of immense trust that you see forged in situations of immense stress.

I dream about doing a film about once a week.

It's hard. It's hard to get a film made properly.

There's something that comes into you that's so exciting when you're directing.