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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.
Willem Dafoe
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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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The truth is I like the crazy ones better than the well-behaved ones normally because they tend to be the passionate ones. They never come after you if you're holding up your end. The only thing that's bad about an abusive director is that they bully the people they can.
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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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Turn off the sound in a movie, and if you can tell what's going on, the movie should work.
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The worst thing is to get involved with people who aren't passionate about what they're doing.
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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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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 never act. I simply bring out the real animal that's in me.
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Each of the actors is quite different, but they're all living in the same world.
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If you get stuck and it feels a little stiff, then you do have to mess it up to find it. But other times it's really written and you just stick to your guns and do it as elegantly and as concentrated and as committed as you can.
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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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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 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 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 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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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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It's nice to go back with people that you already trust.
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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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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've never had any close male friends. The most important relationships in my life have always been with women.
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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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