Willem Dafoe Want Quotations

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

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.

When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses - which ones get portrayed is another question, but you want to have that complexity and that fullness, even if you're playing a cartoon character.

I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me.

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, you're not growing.

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