John Cusack Quotes
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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 think being self-referential is really narcissistic. Who's to say anybody's even thinking of you that much? But some of these movies that I've done, people still recite lines to me, even 20 years later.
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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.
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I read Noam Chomsky. I like some of Gore Vidal's stuff.
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Well, I think any actor can probably identify with being a professional liar. You don't always look at yourself that way, but I know a lot of days I do.
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Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.
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If I'm in something that I think is kinda good, it stays with me like a fever dream for a long time afterwards. I don't recall the finished product so much as the feeling of making it.
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Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.
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Sometimes you meet people and you feel like you've known them for a long time.
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People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.
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I guess maybe I'm idealistic.
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I grew up in Evanston and lived in Chicago for a long time, in Old Town and Wrigleyville. I did three films when I was in high school. The first was 'Class,' with Rob Lowe. I had a supporting role in that.
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I just love the process of working with other actors.
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Art is spiritual.
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If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.
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Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?
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Well, acting itself is a form of rebellion, always. Getting up there in front of people, telling stories - you're kind of going against the grain to begin with, wanting to do that, don't you think? Why else would you do it? Except maybe as kind of a way to affirm your very existence.
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I was never interested in being an overly public person.
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My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.
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A lot of powerful people in Washington may think it's a crazy-leftist-fringe position to think the intellectual authors of a torture regime should be investigated and prosecuted.
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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.
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If you wanna give me an award, I'll take it. Just don't make me go to the party afterwards.
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I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can.