John Cusack Quotes

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• There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember…
• 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…
• Getting trapped back in the '80s, it's almost like a comic nightmare, which for me is a very real nightmare. Every time I flip through…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• I was only in one of the John Hughes films, and I never saw the other ones. I didn't understand them. I kept hearing a…
• I'm definitely nostalgic about the music of my youth; The Clash and Fishbone and that whole music scene. I still have all that music to…
• If you're a movie star, there's a cycle you go through: adoration, adulation, you're used, and then you're discarded. And it happens again and again,…
• 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…
• The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up…
• The reason bin Laden staggered the planes going into the towers was so every camera would be focused on the second tower when the plane…
• When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to…
• With acting, you wanna see if you can get into trouble without knowing how you're gonna get out of it. It's like the exact opposite…
• Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life, all this shame…
• Art is spiritual.
• Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.
• Usually I play people who just keep babbling on and on and on.
• Nope, no sex scandals yet. But I am open to offers!
• Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.

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