A lot of people are not meant to be together.
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

Art is spiritual.
John Cusack

Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.
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

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?
John Cusack

Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.
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 feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell action and cut.
John Cusack

I guess maybe I'm idealistic.
John Cusack


I have a bit of a rebellious nature.
John Cusack

I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.
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

I think good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess. You don't actually consummate it, but you get to pretend, imagine what it would be like.
John Cusack

I think the more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.
John Cusack

I think when you get to the point where you don't need to be in love, then you could be in love. You have to just be OK with yourself-and that's a long process.
John Cusack

I was a teen star. That's disgusting enough.
John Cusack

I was never interested in being an overly public person.
John Cusack

I was raised Catholic until I was old enough to say no.
John Cusack

I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.
John Cusack