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I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.
John Malkovich
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John Malkovich
Age: 70
Born: 1953
Born: December 9
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You can't 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.
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I don't like things too overstated in the cut or too perfect.
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I was never a fanatical movie person. There are many popular films I absolutely love like anyone else. Having said that, I don't have time to go to the movies very much. I work a lot of different things, I'm always busy. But I'm always happy to see a popular movie.
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You have to play your characters, not like them.
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Things are so much global and Americanised.
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In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.
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I don't think my parents know what I do.
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I don't really have a comprehension of being a public figure.
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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 he set.
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I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves.
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People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on.
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It seems whenever I've had a method or what I perceived to be an intellectual groundwork of some sort - a kind of game plan - it's always been the most morbid failure.
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I don't really go through a process, it goes through me.
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I've always been an avid reader. Everyone in my family read a lot. Considering we were from a little town, we were pretty literate.
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It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.
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My father was a very contradictory man. I mean, most environmentalists in America in the 1950s - of which there were hardly any - were not... paratroopers. But my father was in the 82nd Airborne, it was just like that.
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I mean, anything that money can be made off will never be a problem to make, no matter what it is.
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I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character.
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I'm not a control maniac.
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Well, I like to have fun at work.
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