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Turn off the sound in a movie, and if you can tell what's going on, the movie should work.
Willem Dafoe
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Willem Dafoe
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: July 22
Film Actor
Film Producer
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Performing Artist
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Stage Actor
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Appleton
Wisconsin
William J. Willem Dafoe
William James Dafoe
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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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I have some sort of affinity for compulsive behavior. The most interesting stories come up from the people on the outside.
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That's a frustration sometimes, that certain directors that I'd like to work with, they just aren't doing stories that I'm sort of castable in. Not always, but sometimes I have that frustration.
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I love doing action and stuff the problem is usually action movies are not that interesting. Also as I get older I feel like there's less opportunities for me.
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Socially, I like the idea of sitting in a theater with a bunch of people.
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I try to do as many of my own stunts as possible. If you keep on taking yourself out of the role you play, you lose the thread of the character.
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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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I am confident only when I am constantly in motion. Between projects, the doubt creeps in.
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The Midwest isn't somewhere you mix with those from the performing arts. But my mum and dad would go off to Chicago every so often to see shows. They would bring back the albums and the movies, those little eight metres, and we would all watch. I think that was when I fell in love with acting.
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The English Patient' is about the coming together of a French-Canadian nurse, an English patient, a Sikh in a turban and me, Caravaggio, and each of us is seeking a resolution to our own problems.
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I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me.
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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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I'll never be able to really see a film that I'm in.
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When I give over to somebody's vision rather than have an idea of what I need to do, it takes me to places I wouldn't have got to by myself. I'm always attracted to a strong director.
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Celebrity is okay as long as you know it's not about you.
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I think, as I've gotten older, I've been able to be more reckless with my choices, because practically speaking, you get less careful. Your choices become more instinctive, and you feel like if you make a mistake, it won't destroy you.
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I don't worry so much about the audience. I want them very much to be involved and enjoy the movie, but I try to just inhabit the character in a full way, where I can create a personal stake.
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Plenty of bad movies are very successful, and plenty of good movies are not. And distribution is so crazy, some films won't even get their day in court.
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I don't want people to know anything about me, because that's not important. I'm more interested in the me that takes shape through the characters.
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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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