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Basically, when I hear the words 'family drama' I run in the opposite direction.
Willem Dafoe
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Willem Dafoe
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: July 22
Film Actor
Film Producer
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Stage Actor
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Appleton
Wisconsin
William J. Willem Dafoe
William James Dafoe
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I love theaters. I love the event of going there and seeing a movie with a lot of people. I like the community coming around the story.
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A lot of critics are lazy. They don't want to look closely and analyze something for what it is. They take a quick first impression and then rush to compare it to something they've seen before.
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Turn off the sound in a movie, and if you can tell what's going on, the movie should work.
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It's too easy to trivialize people. The Internet does it all the time.
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I'm a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So I frown on any method.
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Truth is, generally I like film festivals somewhere at some level there's an exchange of ideas.
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Usually when you meet with a director, just meeting them after you've seen something you're interested in, they say, Oh I'd love to work together, and sometimes you never hear from them again.
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The truth is, if you're around long enough, you have a story about everyone. But it's best to keep your mouth shut sometimes.
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I pride myself on being fairly polite on a set so it's kind of a guilty pleasure to poke others on the set.
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I aspire to be an instrument of the director. I'm happiest like that. The stronger the director, the more I'm willing to give them.
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Celebrity is okay as long as you know it's not about you.
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I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished.
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I'm one of those people who when I go over a bridge, I want to jump. It's just this intense tickle in the back of my throat. It's like I'm on the verge the whole time I'm walking over that bridge, and I'm not going to get a release until I jump.
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Each of the actors is quite different, but they're all living in the same world.
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Sometimes you feel like you have to do research to make something, other times you know you don't feel it so much.
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In films you do a scene, you play around with it and unless you're doing a lot of reshooting, which no one has the luxury to do, you deal with the problem for a day and then you move on. On some level, it never allows you to go very deep into what performing is about.
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I don't have a preference between theatre and film I like to do both. But I will say that there's something about theatre that is more nourishing and sustaining than film ever can be.
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There's a real wisdom to not saying a thing.
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With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.
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Weirdness is not my game. I'm just a square boy from Wisconsin.
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