"The more banal he is, the more terrifying he is. There is no doubt and I'll say without question that it was the most difficult thing I've ever done as an actor."

VOA: standard.2010.01.08

It wouldn't work without an actor as intense and magnificent as Daniel Day-Lewis, who plays Daniel Plainview, a monomaniacal oilman.

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