Willem Dafoe Quotes
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.
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I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.
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It's good to be intuitive.
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I don't push buttons to push buttons. Throwing the rebel card out there is really cheap.
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So, I guess motherhood and the threat of not being able to pay my rent inspired me to be a novelist. But as far as what inspired me to be a writer, it's the stories. It sounds very cliched, but the stories rise up and demand to be told. They always have done, long before I became a writer.
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The international media concentrates on the famous, the big names. Al Jazeera goes to the margins, investigates stories that are still developing and in the future become very big. Why did the Arabic world love Al Jazeera? Everybody felt he was represented in the newsroom and on the screen. That kind of belonging is ours.
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I chase after inspiring stories.
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I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my 'days off.'
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For me, it's not an option to despair. The question is: what can we do to make someone's life better? Take the unimaginable strides made in places like Bosnia, where I cut my teeth, and Rwanda. Their stories aren't perfect, but I wouldn't have dreamt they could happen in a million years.
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I have never thought about creating an image for myself in Bollywood. I am an actor and just want to experiment with roles. I am ready to do all type of roles.
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I have placed there a little door opening on to the mysterious. I have made stories.
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So many of us are hungry for stories with more racial diversity, more truth in representation, and I am anxious to help tell those stories in the future.
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I love telling stories about people that don't normally get written about. It's a different kind of life here. This is a movie from the heart, and it's a little different from the normal movies you'll see.
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I haven't left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection! Either way we're screwed!
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The camera's dumb, it don't [sic] care who's pushing the button. It doesn't know.
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The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done.
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My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end.
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Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
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Stories don’t always have happy endings.
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To be a movie star, you have to carry a movie. And to carry a movie where you play the title role is the supreme example.
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The pressure of show business is on all the time and show business is a fickle business. Whatever is popular now - that's all that counts. I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why.
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Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will dig you in.
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We Germans should know that we're good at constructing cars, and we have a lot of good qualities. But we're not the funniest.
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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.
