(on researching his role as Plainview in There Will Be Blood (2007)) I read a lot of correspondence dating from that period. Decent middle-class lives with wives and children were abandoned to pursue this elusive possibility. They were bank clerks and shipping agents and teachers. They all fled West for a sniff of cheap money. And they made it up as they went along. No one knew how to drill for oil. Initially, they scooped it out of the ground in saucepans. It was man at his most animalistic, sifting through filth to find bright, sparkly things.
- Daniel Day-Lewis"Sometimes life hits you on the head with a saucepan. But I`m not here to talk about saucepans."
- Toni ColletteThe chemicals in the dishwashing process tend not to be good for saucepans.
- Delia Smith