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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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Willem Dafoe
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: July 22
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Appleton
Wisconsin
William J. Willem Dafoe
William James Dafoe
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Trust is always a factor. You've just got to look at the big picture, and you've got to look at the small picture - the small picture in the sense that you've got to make every scene work and you've got to deal with what people are presenting you with, too.
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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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All the time, as an actor, you want to be asking what's next and where things are going. If you're not asking those questions, you're not growing.
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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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Each of the actors is quite different, but they're all living in the same world.
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Any actor who tells you that he makes choices, absolutely, is wrong. You find work and work finds you.
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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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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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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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The director's very important to me, particularly when the director has a recognizable style.
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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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When you have something to work with, then you fly with it.
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Sometimes you're wrong, but if I'm a repeat customer, it means I must have valued the past experiences.
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Socially, I like the idea of sitting in a theater with a bunch of people.
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Mounting those red stairs [in Cannes] is something I've done with a very different intention many times. So it's interesting any time you witness those shifts of perspective. The beach scenes were also fun. It felt very strange and very theatrical to kind of commandeer it and have La Mer booming over the speakers.
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The best thing an actor can be is ready. Be flexible, be ready.
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I was watching 'Wild at Heart,' and I can honestly say I did nothing for that apart from show up!
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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 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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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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