Willem Dafoe Quotes

I have some sort of affinity for compulsive behavior. The most interesting stories come up from the people on the outside. They don't waste energy marching to the same drummer most of us do. It gives us an opportunity to look at things in a different way, which is the purest thing cinema can do.

My roommate and my boyfriend, they both know I am compulsive and controlling.

Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.

I'm a compulsive everything.

Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.

And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger.

To me, when you have people trying to put their best foot forward but facing conflict, that's when stories are the most interesting.

The reason people are watching women in their mid-fifties is because a lot of those women feel great and have different, interesting stories to tell.

People at a point of conflict are always the most interesting stories to tell.

OCD, we discovered is a lot of different things-it's not just washing your hands, it's whatever you're obsessed with. It can be just the way you hold a pen, and you always have to have it a certain way or you have to eat your food, it depends. It's something that, as a character I thought was really interesting because sometimes it's used in a film where it is OCD and sometimes it's strategic.

Whatever story you're telling, it will be more interesting if, at the end you add, "and then everything burst into flames.

Stories turn anonymous strangers into people who matter.

We are living in an era of such interesting new forms, and certainly narrative non-fiction has emerged as a major form. People who are great writers don't have to write novels anymore.

There are tons of stories out there. I read a lot of scripts on a weekly basis. I'm looking for stories to tell and stories that I hope will be interesting to an audience.

I lose patience with long stories. I get people who go, "Crumb, do some long stories, do a graphic novel." Novel-schmovel.

Lies are just stories, and stories are all that matter. We all tell stories. Some are more truthful than others, maybe, but in the end the only thing that counts is what you can make people believe.

People become the stories they hear and the stories they tell.

Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.

When I do something I have to do it all the way - that goes for music, with a high-hat, a snare drum, a rhyme, everything. I have to push it to the extreme. That's how I realized I have addictive behavior. Somebody told me this once, that the thing that makes me bad is the same thing that makes me good at other things.

Narratives are not fixed. We change our narratives for ourselves and we change them not necessarily deliberately. In other words, some people do, some people will constantly reconstruct their biography for external purposes, it's a very interesting political ploy.

I don't mind if people look at me like I'm crazy. I'm just being me.

People love dogs. You can never go wrong adding a dog to the story.

I've tried to consider stories that I have read, making them into films, but they would turn out unnatural. If a producer wants that, he should call other people. Not me.

I never do anything normal anyway. I just get other people to do it now.

In TV, you can really get into not only great characters, but also the relationships. There are all of the backstories and all of the relationships that you have with every person in your life, and the relationships those people have with each other. It's just more dense and there's more time to tell stories.