A biography for Willem Dafoehasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“In order to inhabit a character, you've got to embrace and empathise with them.”
“In my experience, sometimes a movie just hits at the wrong time, gets the wrong press, or gets the wrong representation, and it gets misunderstood.”
“I guess they often cast me as the bad guy, because I'm not, er, conventional looking. I look sort of violent. I'm the odd one out, the outsider.”
“Celebrity is okay as long as you know it's not about you.”
“I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me.”
“I'll never be able to really see a film that I'm in.”