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I'm an optimist. I hope if a movie's good that it will be a success, but as we know, that's not always true, just because of popular taste, advertising, distribution patterns - there's lots of reasons.

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Willem Dafoe
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: July 22
Film Actor
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Stage Actor
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Appleton
Wisconsin
William J. Willem Dafoe
William James Dafoe
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