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" I don't like things too overstated in the cut or too perfect. "
John Malkovich
Things
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Perfect
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" I brought my first fall/winter line to New York, and it was confiscated by U.S. Customs. They asked, 'What is the value of this?' I said, 'I'm not so good with existential questions.' "
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" My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me. "
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" I've done quite a few big American films. "
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" If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything. "
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" I know fashion can be intensely goofy, but it is something I've always taken pretty seriously. "
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" My life before children I don't really remember. I've heard references to it, but I really don't remember. "
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" I think with actors, if you just don't set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you're usually OK. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm more boring and more conservative. "
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" 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? "
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" I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it. "
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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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" 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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Knowledge
" Well, I like to have fun at work. "
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" I have at times spoken with my peers and the head of the actors' union about why we're not paid when we appear in, say, a 'TMZ' production, but there seems to be no real interest in combatting it. "
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" I think I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren't available to men before or after, just a very brief period. "
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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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" If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good. "
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" I don't care what other people think. I don't think it matters. "
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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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" Most films, it doesn't matter if you see them or not. "
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" I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic. "
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" I go around the world, working with all kinds of people who I love. "
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