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… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
Sometimes you make very interesting movies that aren't meant for everybody. But this is a capitalist society, so everything conspires to put… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
Sometimes you're wrong, but if I'm a repeat customer, it means I must have valued the past experiences. — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
That's a frustration sometimes, that certain directors that I'd like to work with, they just aren't doing stories that I'm sort of… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
The truth is, if you're around long enough, you have a story about everyone. But it's best to keep your mouth shut… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
In my experience, sometimes a movie just hits at the wrong time, gets the wrong press, or gets the wrong representation, and… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
Sometimes you feel like you have to do research to make something, other times you know you don't feel it so much. — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think women are lucky because they can develop in ways men can't. The old-boy network may be oppressive to women,… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
Sometimes I say I feel more like a dancer than an actor, because there are things implied about being an actor that… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
I do know that I like to play characters that are sometimes a little on the outside - that's because it feels… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
The real difficulty for smaller films, when they're made independently and it's time to go for a distributor, sometimes if it's a… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
I'm an optimist. I hope if a movie's good that it will be a success, but that's not always true, just because… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
I like to work with people of different cultures, different points of view. But yeah, I feel much more comfortable. That's the… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
I was doing community theater, and I was always interested in acting, but I was also interested in sports. I was interested in a… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share
I knew very little about 'Spider-Man'. I grew up more in the 'Superman' generation. 'Spider-Man' - I didn't know so much. But it is… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share
When I was a kid I was very interested in the idea of the will, finding out what you're capable of. I liked those… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share
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… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share
I'm more interested in talking about what I do. And I don't think people are interested in my personal life. I've never had a… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share
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… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share
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… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share
For every role, you have to always find a different way to approach it, one that's specific and suits what the key is. Every… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share
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,… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share
I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment. — Willem Dafoe Copy Share
I was watching 'Wild at Heart,' and I can honestly say I did nothing for that apart from show up! — Willem Dafoe Copy Share
Truth is, generally I like film festivals; somewhere at some level there's an exchange of ideas. — Willem Dafoe Copy Share
I don't think people are interested in my personal life. I've never had a Hollywood life. I've always been a worker. — Willem Dafoe Copy Share
