Turn off the sound in a movie, and if you can tell what's going on, the movie should work.

- Willem Dafoe

When you have something to work with, then you fly with it.

- Willem Dafoe

I think on some level, you do your best things when you're a little off-balance, a little scared. You've got to work from mystery, from wonder, from …

- Willem Dafoe

The worst thing is to get involved with people who aren't passionate about what they're doing.

- Willem Dafoe

I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment.

- Willem Dafoe

Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to.

- Willem Dafoe

You have to lose yourself to find yourself.

- Willem Dafoe

There's a real wisdom to not saying a thing.

- Willem Dafoe

I never act. I simply bring out the real animal that's in me.

- Willem Dafoe