Quotes by Willem Dafoe

Willem Dafoe

A lot of critics are lazy. They don’t want to look closely and analyze something for what it is. They take a quick first impression and then rush to compare it to something they’ve seen before.

First Impression

Lazy

Looks

Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action.

Action

Inspiration

Celebrity is okay as long as you know it’s not about you.

Knows

Long

Okay

Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people’s hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted.

Giving

Hands

People

I am confident only when I am constantly in motion. Between projects, the doubt creeps in.

Creeps

Doubt

Projects

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. It’s not just about admiration for their films, it’s how they deal with you, and whether they get you or the way you work. If they don’t, you better adjust your way of working to suit them. I want to work with people who are good at what they do, and people who are passionate. As you get older, you suffer fools less easily. That’s why there’s all those cranky character actors. I’m an exception. I’m a sweetheart.

Character

Giving

People

I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me.

Mainstream

Sides

Want

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.

Film

Preference

Theatre

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.

Character

Trying

Worry

I guess they often cast me as the bad guy, because I’m not, er, conventional looking. I look sort of violent. I’m the odd one out, the outsider.

Guy

Looks

Odd One

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Action

Actors

Adventure

Advertising

Age

Art

Beach

Best Things

Bombs

Boys

Brother

Capitalist

Challenges

Character

Choices

Comedy

Community

Compassion

Crazy

Creeps

Culture

Dad

Different

Directors

Dirty

Doe

Doubt

Dry

Dvds

Empathy

Exercise

Father

Film

Finding Yourself

First Impression

Firsts

Flats

Frustration

Fun

Giving

Good Movie

Gun

Guy

Hands

Heart

Honestly

Ideas

Inspiration

Interesting

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Quotes by Willem Dafoe

Willem Dafoe

A lot of critics are lazy. They don’t want to look closely and analyze something for what it is. They take a quick first impression and then rush to compare it to something they’ve seen before.

Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action.

Celebrity is okay as long as you know it’s not about you.

Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people’s hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted.

I am confident only when I am constantly in motion. Between projects, the doubt creeps in.

I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me.

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.

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.

I guess they often cast me as the bad guy, because I’m not, er, conventional looking. I look sort of violent. I’m the odd one out, the outsider.

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