I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise. — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
With acting it's your neck up there in the end. And if you think the director can't help you it's one thing.… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
The media can make anything true or untrue. So if you do 80 films and you play a bad guy ten times,… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
Most filmmakers' entire body of knowledge is of other movies. When they describe things, they describe them in relation to other movies.… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
If I hear a film clip, or I happen to see some image from a film - you go to a film… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
Films take too long. There's too much BS, too much nonsense. If I want to do a play, I just call the… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
I was never a fanatical movie person. There are many popular films I absolutely love like anyone else. Having said that, I… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
Films take too long. There's too much BS, too much nonsense. If I want to do a play, I just call the theater, whether… — John Malkovich Copy Share
I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently. — John Malkovich Copy Share
Most filmmakers' entire body of knowledge is of other movies. When they describe things, they describe them in relation to other movies. That's why… — John Malkovich Copy Share
I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work in the… — John Malkovich Copy Share
I have driven school buses, sold egg rolls and painted houses, and I have often wondered what my life would have been like if… — John Malkovich Copy Share
One doesn't know if one had a happy childhood or not. I don't really know what it means. — John Malkovich Copy Share
I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard… — John Malkovich Copy Share
I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked… — John Malkovich Copy Share
I think people seem to sort of associate me with danger. And I don't see that at all. — John Malkovich Copy Share
I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it. And it's pretty irritating to get… — John Malkovich Copy Share
I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing. — John Malkovich Copy Share
