I think when I went to psychoanalysis, I actually believed that people said what they meant. This was my whole problem.
— John Malkovich
I'm a little bit phobic about stains on my clothes, so I never travel without a little packet of organic stain remover.
Fashion is chaotic, and it can be an aggravation, too, but it is at its best when it allows you to express yourself.
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 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.
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.
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 am inspired by the appearance of a bohemian of the new millennium.
I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.
I love to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me.
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.
I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.
I don't mind tracksuits. At the track.
I'm more boring and more conservative.
I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character.
I don't remember my life before I had children.
Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.
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.'
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 fashion can be intensely goofy, but it is something I've always taken pretty seriously.
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.
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 admire sensible, kind people. They're not often famous.
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'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic.
My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me.
We're all animals.
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?'
The projects I look for to produce or direct would not be ones in which I would want to act.
In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.
As an actor there are no drawbacks.
I never really did a western western.
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.
I don't have a saviour or a royal family.
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 always liked clothes; since I was very, very young, I was interested. I studied costume as part of my theatre education.
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.
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.
I love Chicago, but in a lot of ways it's a disappointment. You can work there for years and years, and because you're in Chicago, you don't get the recognition. It has some of the best theater in the country, but when they shoot a movie there, they bring in all their actors.
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.
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.
I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.
Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that.
A dog that has rabies probably will do things it wouldn't do if it didn't have rabies. But that doesn't change the fact that it has rabies.
I don't really go through a process, it goes through me.
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 don't like things too overstated in the cut or too perfect.
I'm not a very skeptical person.
Things are so much global and Americanised.
I believe in humans.
