Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes

I'm just grateful I didn't have to spend my early 20s in front of paparazzi cameras.

You are being hit with tabloid-journalism bi-lines of what you are doing because you have suddenly become a star.

I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.

It was really weird dealing with the media. I had no idea how to handle it.

I'm used to having big movie cameras in my face; I pretend that they're not there.

I love it behind the camera as much as I do in front.

I didn't even know I would be an actor; I always wanted to be a cameraman.

As someone who's been a filmmaker and an editor, I was wary of being on camera.

The only thing with press attention is that it can be very draining on our energy store.

A race without journalists also has one advantage for Max: he does not have to give so many interviews.

Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.

As a result of my husband's position, there is newfound media attention to my every move. I did not imagine this level of scrutiny, but I understand it is now part of my life.

As a producer, it's not unusual to find yourself on the field, backstage, often with a camera crew and living with constant anxiety of accidentally ending up in the shot.

There's definitely a lot of trash that comes with the prize of being famous. It's a nice gift, but there's a lot of wrapping and paper and junk to cut through. Back then, when a movie came out and people saw you on the street, their reaction was so supercharged that it was scary. It would frighten other people. It used to really rattle me. I mean, everybody would love to have their clothes torn off by a mob of girls, but being screamed at is different.

We grew up with a camera in front of us.

There's a film you write, there's a film you shoot, and there's a film that you cut - and they're all different.

I never enjoyed being famous.

I don't profess to know how to balance the positive and the negative media attention. It's a gamble every time you put yourself out there, and, certainly, I'm always readjusting to it.

The most underestimated risk for a politician is overexposure.

My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.

I try to put myself in the shoes of people in the news. I'm in the news myself quite a lot. But there's many days I give thanks I'm not in the news and the news that's out there.

There are drawbacks in being famous too, but you can live with those. They're not life-threatening. If the paparazzi are outside your restaurant or your house - and actors make such a big thing of it and scurry into cars and drape things - you think they're going to be crucified or something. It's not a big deal. You can get used to that. It's not so terrible.

One time I had too many Heinekens and I googled myself and realized that that was a very, very bad combination. One should not google oneself. My mother lets me know when I'm being followed by paparazzi. She's like, "There's a man who is outside your house, Ginny, and you need to be logging onto this website to see if you can find a pattern in when he follows you." But otherwise, I can't find any good reason to read my own press.

When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.

When I move from being a cameraman to being a director I looked at a lot of other cameramen who tried to make the move. And in each case they moved up their camera operator to be the DP, which really meant they didn't want to give up being the DP, and really wanted to do both. And my feeling was if I was going to succeed as a director, I had to just be a director and give up the safety net of being a cameraman.