Being John Malkovich

“Being John Malkovich, no way! I was just watching that. When I was in Chicago starting out acting, he was the man, Malkovich, Steppenwolf and all that. So when they made a movie called Being John Malkovich, it made perfect sense to all of us. It's such a fun movie, it's such a bizarre movie, so imaginative, and Catherine Keener, I mean, come on.”

“Being John Malkovich. Also one of my favorite movies. I don’t know, it’s just so creative. I’m also– I’m from New Jersey, so anything that has the Jersey Turnpike in it, you know, I’m gonna love. The melancholy of this movie is just really special. And I think it also really informed my sense of storytelling because it was so out there. It was one that I watched many, many times. And still could. Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich. And Charlie Kaufman, I mean, we have to give props.”

“Being John Malkovich both for Spike Jonze and for John Malkovich who I adore and I was lucky enough to do a small thing with him a long time ago but it's just a wonderful film also I'm always looking for films that I can show my 10-year-old and this one is it really works for a 10-year-old already it's quite magically funny and so original and crazy...”

“You know Being John Malkovich, I look like John Malkovich. It's true. This movie rocked my world when I first saw it. If you read the original screenplay for it, it's much more bananas than the film was. I think they reached a nice middle ground with this film.”

“Oh, lovely stuff. Of course, seen a million times, loved a million times. I'm not sad that this, Being John Malkovich by Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman, is going in my bag.”

“This is Spike Jonze’s first feature, Being John Malkovich. Thirty years ago, a few blocks from here, we were with Spike when he shot the first Daft Punk music video, “Da Funk,” with Lance Acord as the cinematographer. And a few months, a few years after that, Spike directed his first film. It’s an instant classic. I love it and I highly recommend it.”