Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or hist…

Daniel Day-Lewis
78 citations
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.
Life Sadness Truth
14

More Author Quotes

I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing.
I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father... ✨ In the name of the father. Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. February 28, … ▶
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 … ▶
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 confr … ▶
I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.

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.

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes