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Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.
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I love these movies where it's just about the film. You don't have my face on the poster. It's all about the movie. I like that.
John Cusack
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I read Noam Chomsky. I like some of Gore Vidal's stuff.
John Cusack -
I think that taking night trains or meeting someone on the road is pretty romantic. I've done a couple of things like that. I've surprised someone in Paris. And hopefully, when you surprise someone, they're happy to see you.
John Cusack -
I think that Poe is so resonant because he represents that part of us that is in misery or sorrowful or wants to explore the darkness. He wrote a great story called 'The Imp of the Perverse' about the instinct towards self-destruction. Poe is the godfather of Goth literature and that whole movement.
John Cusack -
Hollywood is just a bunch of people going around in Learjets to other people asking them if they've got any money? Well, they might have if they didn't spend it all on jets.
John Cusack -
I remember once acting really cool on a bus with this girl named Stephanie. When I got home, I realized that I had a really big zit on my forehead. If you have acne problems, you really shouldn't be acting like Don Juan. I should have been contrite - and apologized for exposing her to the angry pimple.
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It's a very frightening time when something as basic as due process is seen as somehow radical.
John Cusack
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I don't want to produce anymore small or independent movies because it's just too hard these days.
John Cusack -
I have a bit of a rebellious nature.
John Cusack -
Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful.
John Cusack -
New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.
John Cusack -
I never wanted to come off as self-important.
John Cusack -
I guess maybe I'm idealistic.
John Cusack
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I just love the process of working with other actors.
John Cusack -
But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em.
John Cusack -
It's like those high-school yearbook photos that everyone would rather not see: Oh my God, look at that mullet hair. I have those photos too, but for me, they're, like, entire movies. And they show them on cable.
John Cusack -
Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.
John Cusack -
I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you're famous, its hard to live in a small town.
John Cusack -
Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.
John Cusack
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The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.
John Cusack -
Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.
John Cusack -
It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it.
John Cusack -
I just love the process of working with other actors. It's like jamming with a musician, except it takes a little more effort to get to that place as an actor, because you have the cameras and lights and everything. But I love jamming with these people.
John Cusack