Daniel Day-Lewis: "I'm not picky"

Daniel Day-Lewis has denied that he is picky about which film projects he chooses.

The actor told The Guardian that he had to think for a long time before agreeing to star in Nine.

Day-Lewis said: "It wasn't a convenient time for me to go back to work. I'm not picky, quite honestly. It's simply that I recognise pretty quickly the stuff that I don't like.

"And I also recognise the impulse that is dragging me towards a piece of work. And perhaps as you get older, that impulse comes less often."

He added: "In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it."

"I made a personal pledge that I wouldn't work unless I needed to. And you're right, that's a tremendous privilege.

"But I've always thought that if [it] was a question of paying bills, simple as that, then I would much rather do any work than this."