I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.
John Malkovich
People get up, they go to work, they have their lives, but you'll never see the headlines say, 'Six billion people got along rather well today.' You'll have the headline about the 30 people who shot each other.
I'm not a Method actor. I don't believe acting should be psychodrama. I look within myself and see what I can find to play the role with. If I'm playing a blind man, I don't go around blindfolded for days. A lot of good actors would, but I don't go in for that very much. I like to just make it up as I go along.
The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.
I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch.
Most of the women that I like have a haunted quality - they're sort of like women who live in a haunted house all by themselves.
I lost seventy pounds eating nothing but Jello for 4 months. But of course there is great variety in the colors! I think, if I remember correctly, it's 230 calories for a whole bowl. Maybe 270? In the 5th month, I added fruit.
I have driven school buses, sold egg rolls and painted houses, and I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I hadn't gone into acting. Mind you, it's a great life, going around pretending you're other people and getting paid ridiculous sums of money for it.
People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on.
If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything.
I'm more boring and more conservative.
I'll never be the biggest kind of star; I'll be like Bob Duvall, respected as an actor but a lot of people can't identify the face. I don't have the personality of a big star, or the looks of a Mel Gibson or a Paul Newman, or the style of a George C. Scott.
I think when I went to psychoanalysis, I actually believed that people said what they meant. This was my whole problem.
I probably have more female friends than any man I've ever met. What I like about them is that almost always they're generally mentally tougher, and they're better listeners, and they're more capable of surviving things.
I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.
I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic.
Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.
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.
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.
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.
I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes.
I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves.
I think people seem to sort of associate me with danger. And I don't see that at all.
If I had spent as much time in the weight room as I did designing football uniforms, I probably would have had a free college education.
Actors generally get to do things you probably shouldn't do in real life - well, at least as much as one might like to or be tempted to. Though I suppose a lot of actors just go ahead and do it, don't they?
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.
I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.
I prefer to conduct my life based on how I treat people.
I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex.
I don't mind tracksuits. At the track.
Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance.
I grew up in the Midwest, quite far from any ocean or any beach, a million miles. I think for kids who grew up where I did, the idea of California, surfing and beach life was so exotic and glamorous.
I know for a fact that a lot of actors are desperate and unhappy if their careers are not progressing at what they think is the correct rate. They just go crazy if they're not working. I don't feel I'd be that way. You can always get a few people together and put on a play. Maybe not in New York or L.A., but in a lot of other towns, you can.
Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you.
I'm a little bit phobic about stains on my clothes, so I never travel without a little packet of organic stain remover.
It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.
Utopia means elsewhere.
I'm an atheist.
I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character.
My father was a very contradictory man.
It's tough to figure out how do we compete in Europe and North America, when obviously a living wage for us is very different than a living wage in Indonesia.
I don't care what other people think. I don't think it matters.
I'm not a psychiatrist. I'm not treating patients.
Fashion is chaotic, and it can be an aggravation, too, but it is at its best when it allows you to express yourself.
I am inspired by the appearance of a bohemian of the new millennium.
I am inspired by the appearance of a bohemian of the new millennium. I thought it was necessary to update the figure of the bohemian, but not in the traditional way.
I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.
I don't have a saviour or a royal family.
Of course it's trivial, but then most things are.
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.
