“I don’t think that I’ve ever gone to work without feeling that I’m starting from scratch every time. [That] I really just don’t know. I’m not sure I know how to do this … but at the same time, the work that goes on beforehand is, for me, if it works as it should, do, that by the time you arrive on a set and there’s a camera, there’s not a confrontation with … all the paraphernalia of filmmaking, which can be, if you don’t find a way to ignore it, a huge distraction in what you’re doing,” said Daniel-Day Lewis on stage at Alice Tully Hall after the world premiere of Anemone , his return to acting after a an eight-yearn hiatus.

His son Ronan Day-Lewis directed and they co-wrote the film together. “So it always works in such a way that I felt as if day one of the shoot should be like

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