John Malkovich Quotes

There's a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema.

I'm not very eager to sit and look at my films all the time.

I think working as an assistant was a part of knowing people who like cinema, and to learn from a movie, you have to watch it.

I don't think Bollywood is only mindless cinema, but a lot of films they churn out are not films that I completely enjoy watching.

I think that there's good movies and there's bad movies, and sometimes the bad movies spoil it for the rest of us, and we focus on them, but in the long run, all that matters are the good movies. Those are the ones that we will remember.

I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!

At film festivals, I put on my sunglasses and go to sleep because I don't want to see my films again.

No film should be meaningless.

You find movies when you need them. They may not always be the best films, but they speak to you.

I had no patience for films. It was only after I met Shah Rukh that I learnt to enjoy his passion for cinema.

If people enjoy your movies, that's the most important thing.

When people watch good films they want other films to be of that calibre as well particularly when you cater to the same core audience.

I knew nothing about the independent film industry. I didn't know much about the industry itself. All I knew was how to watch movies, how to enjoy them, how to hate them, how not to like them.

It is not enough for a movie to be righteous. It must also be watchable.

Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.

I still enjoy watching films more than making them.

I watched films growing up, but no more than the next guy, really. Working on 'Hugo' made me appreciate cinema and the art of cinema a lot more.

There's nothing I like more than to have one of our movies run, and then I go to the ladies' room and listen to everybody talk about it. No one has any idea who I am.

If you go out and see a lot of movies in a given year, it's really hard to come up with a top ten, because you saw a lot of stuff that you liked. A top 20 is easier. You probably get one masterpiece a year, and I don't think you should expect more than one masterpiece a year, except in a really great year.

I love watching film. I love watching stories. I watch the people in them... Even, sometimes, films that nobody else can watch - 'How could you look at that? It's lousy' - I can look at it and be totally into it.

I didn't go to many movies. My mom would make a family outing and bring chicken in the theater. Smell up the whole place. The most impactful movies were 'Godfather II' and 'Scarface'. I loved the human complexity, and those movies are so well shot. Cinematic greatness. I really stopped going in my early twenties.

I have a rule now that I can only watch a movie twice. By the third time I was watching 'The Guest,' I was hating everything about it, but the first time, I loved it. The first time you watch it, you watch it as a whole. And the second time, I think you can learn a lot. By the third time, you are just picking everything apart.

I don't think cinema is big or small. It's just good or bad.

I tend to think that the whole concept of, 'I saw this TV show, and someone was wearing this sweater, and now I'm going to buy that,' it's something that's been talked about for a long time, but I've never really seen it work. When people are watching an entertainment show, they want to be entertained.

If it's a good movie, it's a good movie. I don't care about the genres.