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.
John MalkovichAnd if you say a word about this over the radio, the next wings you see will belong to the flies buzzing over your rotting corpse.
John MalkovichThere's no worse feeling in the world than realizing the play you've directed doesn't work.
John MalkovichI can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.
John MalkovichI like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it. And it's pretty irritating to get a movie on. So to complicate it by having more irritation as a director, I don't really need it. And because I direct a great deal still, but in the theater, I kind of get that anyway. Which is not at all to say I would never do it again, or it would never happen again.
John Malkovich