"It just seems like such grandiose gibberish to talk about. I never intended to retire, really. I just stopped doing that particular type of work so I could do some other work. I never, you know... Apparently, I've been accused of retiring twice now. I never meant to retire from anything! I just wanted to work on something else for a while."
"I have a lot of pride, and I thought, 'If I draw a line under this, I'll be too proud to go back on that. Because I know there'll come a day when I'll be tempted again. But if I've said I'm not doing this, I won't do it,'"
"This just shows I'm not as proud as I like to think I am! I don't know if any of that makes sense, David, but I do feel it's important to restate that the love of the work itself, that has never diminished for me."
Daniel Day-Lewis clarified that he never intended to retire and has resumed acting to work on new projects. He and his son Ronan Day-Lewis are promoting an upcoming thriller that marks Ronan's feature-length directorial debut and Daniel's first film since 2017's Phantom Thread. He said he paused that particular type of acting to pursue other work and rejected the idea of a permanent retirement. He acknowledged pride influenced earlier statements about drawing a line under his career and emphasized that his love of the work has never diminished.
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