Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.

My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.

I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.

I hate the domestic life.

For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.

To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.

I'm not picky, quite honestly.

I've got a serious-looking head.

I hate wasting people's time.

If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.

I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.

There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.

Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.

Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.

How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie. Daniel Day-Lewis

Shoes are strange things. If you take your shoes off in a situation in which you're vulnerable, you'll feel 10 times more vulnerable.

I have no role models. Many heroes. I have an enormous capacity for hero worship.

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.

The greater your powers of self-delusion, the greater will be the apparent efficacy of this untruth.