I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it. John Cusack More Quotes by John Cusack More Quotes From 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 yearbookhairschool Get your sense of outrage back, and your sense of defiance and spirit back, and try to put these pieces together and confront the excesses of empire at every turn. John Cusack excesstogethertrying Don't buy into the corporate mythology that's been rammed down our throats for all these years. John Cusack mythologythroatyears Poets are political, they have to be reflections of their times [because] they're living in their times... Poetry is political in that it's standing in opposition to fascism. Good poetry asks a bunch of questions and asks the audience to interact with themselves or see themselves in it; maybe you like it or you don't like it. But the fascist sort of stuff plays on your fears and tells you to jump on the party line and gives some simple excuses - blame this person. John Cusack partysimplereflection Every role you do is kind of a side of yourself. That's why they give you the part. John Cusack rolessidesgiving Did you know that the word person comes from the Latin word persona, which means mask? So maybe being human means we invite spectators to ponder what lies behind. Each of us will be composed of a variety of masks, and if we can see behind the mask, we would get a burst of clarity. And if that flame was bright enough, that's when we fall in love. John Cusack falling-in-lovelatinlying 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 figure-skatingdollarsoffice All my romantic stories are a scrambled version of that first one. John Cusack fidelitystoriesfirsts I was a teen star. That's disgusting enough. John Cusack teenagerstarsenough In the future, there is no future. 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 insanegunlaw 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. John Cusack dreamlongthinking My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time. John Cusack good-filmsillusionfilm I was never a joiner. I tried - I had people I admired and liked and wanted to hang with, but I ended up starting a theatre company and that took me back to Chicago... I guess I wasn't a scenester in the end. Something must have worked out right, as I'm still here - but I'm only a binge socialite. John Cusack theatrechicagopeople The Sugar Frosted Nutsack is dizzyingly brilliant. Mark Leyner is a hyperkinetic shaman, who flies the banner of rum and candy and writes like a one-eyed feral bandit. His new book is supremely original, delirious and synapse-shattering. John Cusack sugarwritingbook The situation in the film is like me going out to Venice Beach and talking to a homeless guy on the boardwalk, and 13 years later he's the president. John Cusack talkingbeachyears I don't agonize over decisions as much these days. The criteria of what's important to me is clear. John Cusack criteriaimportantdecision I never wanted to come off as self-important. John Cusack importantselfwanted 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 selfthinking-of-youyears 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. John Cusack hollywoodaskingpeople
