"If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!"
"I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way on the details that are not at all at the centre of the work."
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Source: The enigma of Day-Lewis. Interview with Peter Stanford, www.theguardian.com. January 13, 2008.
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