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Quotes About the Marriage of Daniel Day-Lewis and Rebecca Miller :

Daniel about Rebecca: "She is the most normal, down-to-earth person you could ever meet. We agree entirely about how to raise our children, and we enjoy each other's company."
Source: Caris Davis, "Daniel Day-Lewis: 'I'm a Hands-On Parent'", People.com, 2/4/2008.

Daniel about Rebecca's tolerance: "My wife is amazingly tolerant. I knew that from the word go. She just believes, like I do, that if you are attempting anything of a creative nature, no rules apply."
Source: ShowBizSpy

Rebecca about working with Daniel on The Ballad of Jack and Rose: "There were practical questions, like who would look after the children if we were both working? In the end, we took a nanny to the set on Prince Edward Island and the children had a ball, playing on the beach with the children of the cast and crew. It was like Lord of the Flies - but in a nice way. No murder ... We acknowledged before we started that we were in an odd situation on set. You have to remember who you are as a couple, but you also have to forget because you're telling a story that does not involve you as couple. It's about creating an alternative structure in which you work for a while. It works as long as you know it's a structure."
Source: Peter Stanford, "Miller's tale," The Observer, 3/19/2006.

Rebecca about marriage: “Marriage and motherhood mean you go from being the chief protagonist to being on the sidelines and I’m fascinated by that. Then time passes and you get back to how you were, but things aren’t quite the same ... For most women, the moment when they have children –- especially if they are women who have an occupation –- is the moment they either have to put it on hold or shrink from it, start shrinking ... In my case, there was never any question that I would stop anything –- but then I had a job that was very conducive to having children: writing, or even making films –- my shoots are quite short and don’t go on and on, so it’s easy for me to continue because I never had to interrupt people’s lives too much ... Every time you read an article or a book about this, the solution is ‘women have to quit work’, that’s always the solution: quit, quit, quit. I think that’s terrible.”
Source: India Knight, "Sacrifice is the first task of the perfect wife," The Sunday Times, 2/17/2008.