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Top 7 Directors Adored by Willem Dafoe


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Willem Dafoe shared his favorite directors who inspire him.
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Abel Ferrara

The through line to his film work, though, is an attraction to strong directors (Martin Scorsese, Von Trier, Wes Anderson, David Cronenberg, Paul Schrader, Kathryn Bigelow, and Abel Ferrara among them), visionaries for whom he can, as he puts it, “be their creature. That frees me. I’m good at inhabiting things and I’m a good pretender, and in a structured environment I can let go of what stuff means. I can be the doer, they can be the watcher, and together we can make something.”
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Kathryn Bigelow

The through line to his film work, though, is an attraction to strong directors (Martin Scorsese, Von Trier, Wes Anderson, David Cronenberg, Paul Schrader, Kathryn Bigelow, and Abel Ferrara among them), visionaries for whom he can, as he puts it, “be their creature. That frees me. I’m good at inhabiting things and I’m a good pretender, and in a structured environment I can let go of what stuff means. I can be the doer, they can be the watcher, and together we can make something.”
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Paul Schrader

The through line to his film work, though, is an attraction to strong directors (Martin Scorsese, Von Trier, Wes Anderson, David Cronenberg, Paul Schrader, Kathryn Bigelow, and Abel Ferrara among them), visionaries for whom he can, as he puts it, “be their creature. That frees me. I’m good at inhabiting things and I’m a good pretender, and in a structured environment I can let go of what stuff means. I can be the doer, they can be the watcher, and together we can make something.”
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David Cronenberg

The through line to his film work, though, is an attraction to strong directors (Martin Scorsese, Von Trier, Wes Anderson, David Cronenberg, Paul Schrader, Kathryn Bigelow, and Abel Ferrara among them), visionaries for whom he can, as he puts it, “be their creature. That frees me. I’m good at inhabiting things and I’m a good pretender, and in a structured environment I can let go of what stuff means. I can be the doer, they can be the watcher, and together we can make something.”
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Wes Anderson

The through line to his film work, though, is an attraction to strong directors (Martin Scorsese, Von Trier, Wes Anderson, David Cronenberg, Paul Schrader, Kathryn Bigelow, and Abel Ferrara among them), visionaries for whom he can, as he puts it, “be their creature. That frees me. I’m good at inhabiting things and I’m a good pretender, and in a structured environment I can let go of what stuff means. I can be the doer, they can be the watcher, and together we can make something.”
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Lars von Trier

The through line to his film work, though, is an attraction to strong directors (Martin Scorsese, Von Trier, Wes Anderson, David Cronenberg, Paul Schrader, Kathryn Bigelow, and Abel Ferrara among them), visionaries for whom he can, as he puts it, “be their creature. That frees me. I’m good at inhabiting things and I’m a good pretender, and in a structured environment I can let go of what stuff means. I can be the doer, they can be the watcher, and together we can make something.”
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Martin Scorsese

The through line to his film work, though, is an attraction to strong directors (Martin Scorsese, Von Trier, Wes Anderson, David Cronenberg, Paul Schrader, Kathryn Bigelow, and Abel Ferrara among them), visionaries for whom he can, as he puts it, “be their creature. That frees me. I’m good at inhabiting things and I’m a good pretender, and in a structured environment I can let go of what stuff means. I can be the doer, they can be the watcher, and together we can make something.”
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