A biography for John Malkovichhasn’t been written yet.
“I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character.”
“I don't want to be boring. But that's not always easy.”
“I'm not a very skeptical person.”
“I admire sensible, kind people. They're not often famous.”
“I think with actors, if you just don't set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you're usually OK.”
“Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you.”
“I always wanted to be fashionable.”
“I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.”
“I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.”
“I don't mind tracksuits. At the track.”
“I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.”
“Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.”
“You can't take a play someone has directed and do whatever you want with it.”
“I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch.”
“I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing.”
“I was never a fanatical movie person.”
“The projects I look for to produce or direct would not be ones in which I would want to act.”
“I just start with a pencil and paper. I don't want something too trendy, too fashion-forward. I don't want to make something I consider a regular person couldn't wear with blue jeans. But I don't want to make something that other people make, either - like a skinny black suit in a shiny material that you can buy anywhere.”
“Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that.”
“Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack.”