Willem Dafoe Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• 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.

  Willem Dafoe

  Hands, People, Giving

  "Dafoe Treads The Boards" by wenn.com, October 17, 2001.

• 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.

  Willem Dafoe

  Theatre, Film, Preference

• I'll never be able to really see a film that I'm in.

  Willem Dafoe

  Able, Film

• 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.

  Willem Dafoe

  Character, People, Giving

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. September 25, 2007.

• Truth is, generally I like film festivals; somewhere at some level there's an exchange of ideas.

  Willem Dafoe

  Ideas, Festivals, Levels

  "From Jesus to Antichrist". Interview with Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2009.

• If you know what it is before you even start, it's not as interesting. Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure of it all. That's why you become a junkie for different kinds of situations. 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. I have to worry less about what the character means if I trust the director.

  Willem Dafoe

  Adventure, Character, Mean

  Source: film.avclub.com

• 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.

  Willem Dafoe

  Character, People, Giving

  Source: film.avclub.com

• The bad things about theatre get balanced by the good things in film and vice versa. So to tell you the truth, I love it when I can go back and forth - it feeds different parts of you and exercises different muscles.

  Willem Dafoe

  Exercise, Theatre, Vices

  Interview with Jonathan Romney, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 1998.

• 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 well and they can make it beautiful. You don't really know.

  Willem Dafoe

  Beautiful, Editors, Raw Materials

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. September 25, 2007.

• 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.

  Willem Dafoe

  Moving, Play, Luxury

  Interview with Jonathan Romney, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 1998.

• 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.

  Willem Dafoe

  Crazy, Successful, Good Movie

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. September 25, 2007.

• 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.

  Willem Dafoe

  Real, Dvds, People

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. September 25, 2007.

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