Malkovich: "If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good."

Malkovich: "I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work in the theater."

Malkovich: "I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved."

Malkovich: "I don't want to be boring. But that's not always easy."

Malkovich: "I haven't physically attacked anyone in a couple of years."

Malkovich: "I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently."

Malkovich: "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."

Malkovich: "I don't care what other people think. I don't think it matters."

Malkovich: "I am inspired by the appearance of a bohemian of the new millennium."

Malkovich: "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."

Malkovich: "I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity."

Malkovich: "I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic."

Malkovich: "I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend."

Malkovich: "I always wanted to be fashionable."

Malkovich: "You know, I'm really not interested in someone telling me that something's good or bad."

Malkovich: "Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part."

Malkovich: "I always liked clothes; since I was very, very young, I was interested. I studied costume as part of my theatre education."

Malkovich: "Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly."

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."

Malkovich: "Fashion is chaotic, and it can be an aggravation, too, but it is at its best when it allows you to express yourself."

Malkovich: "I think when I went to psychoanalysis, I actually believed that people said what they meant. This was my whole problem."

Malkovich: "Utopia means elsewhere."

Malkovich: "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."

Malkovich: "I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression."

Malkovich: "The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been."

Malkovich: "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."

Malkovich: "I know fashion can be intensely goofy, but it is something I've always taken pretty seriously."

Malkovich: "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."

Malkovich: "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."

Malkovich: "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."