John Malkovich Quotes

It is necessary to judge accurately the things that rest on opinion

There's no way for me to anticipate what people will like or not like.

Reviews are extremely subjective, but I have respect for them.

To me, what separates a funny movie from a good movie is something personal.

Taste ... is a matter of taste (Tad Allagash)

The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.

I have an opinion. I have my own taste.

If I think something is beautiful, there must be somebody out there who will agree with me.

Each man must reach his own verdict, by weighing all the relevant evidence.

I don't read reviews, because if you believe the good ones, you have to believe the bad.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

I always said your best palate is your own, not mine. I'm a guidepost.

Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes.

To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.

Good taste doesn't exist. It is our taste. We have to be proud of it.

I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.

The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

I know all the critics.

You either like something, or you don't; you won't change your opinion because somebody explains why you should like it.

Editing cannot be taught. Developing your own taste cannot be taught.

If you think something's stupid, it probably is.

I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.