Quotes from John Cusack

I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.

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

You just try to get the best jobs that you can get. Sometimes I produce my own movies, so that's your own sort of vision. That helps things. I don't know what it is. Probably just circumstance. I've definitely been aware of the fact that I want to do different things.

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 the best way to do it, because I could have... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can.

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

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

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 really hip 40-year-old person talking in teenagers' mouths.

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.

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.

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

Our parents more or less just kind of wanted us to pursue our passions. Whatever they would have been, they would have helped light the fire. They are very liberal, artistic people, but they didn't force us into acting. They let us find our own ways.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.

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.

I have a bit of a rebellious nature.

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 too. And also, I think when you're famous, its hard to live in a small town.

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.

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.