I think back story can help guide your choices, but when you’re playing a scene, you’re not making choices; you’re just intuitive. Willem Dafoe Read Quote
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 a really successful franchise, and I’m happy to be involved with it. Willem Dafoe Read Quote
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 castable in. Not always, but sometimes I have that frustration. Willem Dafoe Read Quote
You can be intuitive when you’ve got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons. Willem Dafoe Read Quote
When I give over to somebody’s vision rather than have an idea of what I need to do, it takes me to places I wouldn’t have got to by myself. I’m always attracted to a strong director. Willem Dafoe Read Quote
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 kind of challenges. Willem Dafoe Read Quote
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 Read Quote
It’s true in the beginning I started playing villains, and I think that’s pretty clear, because if you don’t conventionally look a certain way and you’ve got a certain kind of presence when you’re young, then what’s available to you is character roles, and the best character roles when you’re young tend to be villains. Willem Dafoe Read Quote
