John Cusack

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

“If people are constantly reading about you, and you're overexposed, they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.”

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

“I just love the process of working with other actors. It's like jamming with a musician, except it takes a little more effort to get to that place as an actor, because you have the cameras a...”

“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.”

“Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.”

“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.”

“I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.”

“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 2...”

“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...”

“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...”

“I was never interested in being an overly public person.”

“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.”

“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 and fear and pain, and turned them into great wor...”

“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.”

“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.”

“I have a bit of a rebellious nature.”

“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...”

“But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em.”

“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.”