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Daniel Day Lewis

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

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

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"I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did."
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"I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing."
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