I like to direct movies, but I dont like to goof around for eight years talking about it. – John Malkovich
You cant work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting. – John Malkovich
Unlike my grandfather or my brother, Ive actually been able to make some money at a racetrack. – John Malkovich
I dont understand how somebody wouldnt have a sense of humor about themselves. – John Malkovich
I dont have a saviour or a royal family. – John Malkovich
Failures a natural part of life. – John Malkovich
Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone elses dream. – John Malkovich
You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesnt mean you can design one. – John Malkovich
Im more comfortable with whatevers wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didnt measure up to the standard he set. – John Malkovich
A dog that has rabies probably will do things it wouldnt do if it didnt have rabies. But that doesnt change the fact that it has rabies. – John Malkovich
Politics is not really my thing. – John Malkovich
I like very much to do movies. – John Malkovich
Quite often – a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights, and maybe pitfalls too. – John Malkovich
I mean, anything that money can be made off will never be a problem to make, no matter what it is. – John Malkovich
When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on. – John Malkovich
I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression. – John Malkovich
Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it. – John Malkovich
