Willem Dafoe Quotes

"[I] lie like the truth."
-Willem Dafoe

"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."
-Willem Dafoe

"The aesthetic is not that we're taking a hand-held camera and we're just letting it roll and doing our thing, ... Before It Had a Name."
-Willem Dafoe

"It's really a story that makes as much fun of the body politic as any particular politicians. It makes fun of how we got to this place where there's a lot of politics in entertainment and a lot of entertainment in politics."
-Willem Dafoe

"His approach to filmmakers and serving his stories."
-Willem Dafoe

"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."
-Willem Dafoe

"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