John Cusack Quotes
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It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don't know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot.
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I don't want to produce anymore small or independent movies because it's just too hard these days.
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Probably Lloyd in 'Say Anything' is the closest to me - or to who I was at the time. It was just a great love story about people in the '80s, and we all tried to make it feel as real as possible. It was such a wonderful time. We didn't leave anything in the gym; we put it all out there.
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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 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.
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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.
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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.
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It's a very frightening time when something as basic as due process is seen as somehow radical.
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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.
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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.
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I never wanted to come off as self-important.
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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.
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Every role you do is kind of a side of yourself. That's why they give you the part.
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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.
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I read Noam Chomsky. I like some of Gore Vidal's stuff.
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But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em.
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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.
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New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.
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I have a bit of a rebellious nature.
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I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.
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A lot of people are not meant to be together.
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I guess maybe I'm idealistic.
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Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.
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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.