John Cusack

“There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do.”

— John Cusack

“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 all the oxygen.”

— John Cusack

“Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.”

— John Cusack

“I have a bit of a rebellious nature.”

— John Cusack

“My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.”

— John Cusack

“I was never into the popular school or clique or anything. Then I started doing movies when I was in high school, so then I got popular. Then the girls paid attention to you who didn't before.”

— 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

“Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?”

— John Cusack

“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.”

— John Cusack

“Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it.”

— John Cusack

“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

“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

“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.”

— John Cusack

“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.”

— John Cusack

“I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.”

— John Cusack

“I was a teen star. That's disgusting enough.”

— John Cusack

“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

“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 of war, where you need an exit strategy. When you're acting, you should get all the way into trouble with no exit strategy, and have the cameras rolling.”

— 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

“I don't want to produce anymore small or independent movies because it's just too hard these days.”

— John Cusack