American - Actor | December 9, 1953 -
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 else's dream.
John Malkovich
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The projects I look for to produce or direct would not be ones in which I would want to act.
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I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.
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I don't really go through a process, it goes through me.
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When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it.
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We're all animals.
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I love to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me.
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Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that.
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My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me.
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I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.
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I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic.
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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 we have so many cyclical movies that look like other movies. But I'm not cynical. I even go to some of those movies.
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