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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.
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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Performing is about developing empathy, which leads us to a broader view of the world and encourages us to develop compassion so we can comfort each other and not be so brutal with each other.
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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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I set myself challenges every time I work. Ideally I approach everything as though it's the first time - with a beginner's mind and an amateur's love.
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I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment.
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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 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'm no different to anyone else I want people to like me. I just don't particularly want them to understand me.
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You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons.
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I don't think people want to see me as a regular guy. Besides, I'm a regular guy in real life. I guess I just want to be reckless in my work.
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You have to lose yourself to find yourself.
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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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I have some sort of affinity for compulsive behavior. The most interesting stories come up from the people on the outside. They don't waste energy marching to the same drummer most of us do. It gives us an opportunity to look at things in a different way, which is the purest thing cinema can do.
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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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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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Film is an editor's medium. You can create very good raw material and they can make it horrible, or you can do not so well and they can make it beautiful. You don't really know.
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It's true in the beginning I started playing villains, and I think that's pretty clear, because if you don't conventionally look a certain way and you've got a certain kind of presence when you're young, then what's available to you is character roles, and the best character roles when you're young tend to be villains.
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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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I want to work with people who are good at what they do, and people who are passionate.
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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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Let's hope I never end up on a deserted island, because I could never make a decision on which three CDs to take with me.
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