Willem Dafoe People Quotations

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'm one of those people who when I go over a bridge, I want to jump. It's just this intense tickle in the back of my throat. It's like I'm on the verge the whole time I'm walking over that bridge, and I'm not going to get a release until I jump.

The worst thing is to get involved with people who aren't passionate about what they're doing.

Unless it's a down-and-dirty little film ... you have to strike that balance between having it rooted and having the people not fall out of it,

One of the pleasures of going to the movies for me is quite simply to see new ways, to think about broader ways or to challenge something as a given. It's usually people from outside, from the margins, that have the voice that inspires me.

I want to work with people who are good at what they do, and people who are passionate.

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.

I don't think people are interested in my personal life. I've never had a Hollywood life. I've always been a worker.

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.

It's too easy to trivialize people. The Internet does it all the time.

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.

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.

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.

I'm no different to anyone else; I want people to like me. I just don't particularly want them to understand me.

I have some sort of affinity for compulsive behavior. The most interesting stories come up from the people on the outside.

I feel like it's important to be flexible, particularly when I'm coming in late in the game and I'm connective tissue in the story. I'm not at the very center. It's important for me to have a certain kind of flexibility and try to help people do what they need to do.

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 tough film and the people who financed it need their money back right away, it's much easier and lucrative to take a DVD deal.

I try to attach myself to people who really inspire me, and directors who are really passionate. That way, I can give myself more fully and trust the impulse behind why the film is being made, and I can be a little more irresponsible in finding out what the character is.

Socially, I like the idea of sitting in a theater with a bunch of people.