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" I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise. "
John Malkovich
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" I've done quite a few big American films. "
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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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" Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you. "
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" Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly. "
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" 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. "
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" We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true. "
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" I admire sensible, kind people. They're not often famous. "
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" You have to do things people see or you don't get to do anything. "
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" I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression. "
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" You can't take a play someone has directed and do whatever you want with it. "
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" The most evocative thing to me is probably when a writer and a group of performers can collectively put together something compelling that asks the really simple question: 'How do we live?' "
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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 don't throw things or yell. "
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" 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. "
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" My father was a very contradictory man. "
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" I never really did a western western. "
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" I don't want to be boring. But that's not always easy. "
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" Failure's a natural part of life. "
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" Of course it's trivial, but then most things are. "
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" I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves. "
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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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" I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity. "
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" I go around the world, working with all kinds of people who I love. "
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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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