Willem Dafoe quotes
- From the movie: Mississippi Burning
“- Anderson: You know, if I were a Negro, I'd probably think the same way they do.
- Ward: If you were a Negro, nobody would give a damn what you thought.” - From the movie: Mississippi Burning
- From the movie: Affliction
“Our stories, Wade's and mine, describe the lives of the boys and men for thousands of years: boys who were beaten by their fathers, whose capacity for love and trust was crippled almost at birth, men whose best hope for connection with other human beings lay in detachment, as if life was over.”
- From the movie: Mississippi Burning
“- Deputy Pell: You got no right to be here. This is a political meeting.
- Ward: Doesn't smell that way to me, Deputy.
- Deputy Pell: It's a damn political meeting, Hoover Boy.
- Ward: Oh, it looks like a political meeting, but smells more like Klan to me... with or without the Halloween costumes.” - From the movie: Affliction
“You will say that I should have known terrible things were about to happen. You will say that I was responsible. But even so, what could I have done by then? Wade lived on the edge of his emotions. He was always first to receive the brunt of our father's anger. He had no perspective to retreat to, even in a crisis.”
- From the movie: Spider-Man
“- Spider-Man: I'm not like you. You're a murderer.
- Green Goblin: Well, to each his own. I chose my path, you chose the way of the hero. And they found you amusing for a while, the people of this city. But the one thing they love more than a hero is to see a herofail, fall, die trying. In spite of everything you've done for them, eventually...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: At Eternity's Gate
- From the movie: The Lighthouse
- From the movie: The Lighthouse
- From the movie: The Lighthouse
“- Ephraim Winslow: You ever married?
- Thomas Wake: Thirteen Christmases at sea, little ones at home. She never forgave it. Tis for the better.” - From the movie: The Lighthouse
- From the movie: The Lighthouse
- From the movie: The Lighthouse
“I'm damn-well wedded to this here light, and she's been a finer, truer, quieter wife than any alive-blooded woman.”
- From the movie: The Lighthouse
“- Ephraim Winslow: Say, why is it bad luck to kill a gull?
- Thomas Wake: In 'em's the souls of sailors what met their maker.” - From the movie: The Lighthouse
- From the movie: The Lighthouse
- From the movie: Aquaman
“The ocean is not just our home, it is who we are.”
- From the movie: Aquaman
- From the movie: At Eternity's Gate
“- Vincent van Gogh: Paintings have to be done in one clear gesture.
- Paul Gauguin: Think about the surface that you're painting on and how the paint will sit on it. You're changing things so fast, you can't even see what you've done.
- Vincent van Gogh: Paintings have to be painted fast. The painters I like all paint fast in one clear gesture,...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: At Eternity's Gate
“Sometimes they say I'm mad, but a grain of madness is the best of art.”
- From the movie: At Eternity's Gate
“I paint with my qualities and faults.”
- From the movie: At Eternity's Gate
“I paint, as a matter of fact, to stop thinking. I stop thinking, and I feel that I'm a part of everything outside and inside of me.”
- From the movie: At Eternity's Gate
“I'll show what I see to my human brothers who can't see it. It's a privilege. I can give them hope and consolation.”
- From the movie: At Eternity's Gate
“I feel God is nature and nature is beauty.”
- From the movie: At Eternity's Gate
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