208 Quotes by John Cusack

Hopefully as you get older you get more selfless. That would be probably a good goal. I don’t know if we do, though.

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.

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.

New York’s like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it’s like a Fellini movie or something.

Roy, the guy I play in ‘The Grifters,’ is a guy who had a very bleak life. His mother had him at 13, and then when she was 17 or 18 and he was 4 or 5, they were trapped in a small Texas town somewhere, and she was ready to do anything to get out.

If you wanna give me an award, I’ll take it. Just don’t make me go to the party afterwards.

I’m definitely nostalgic about the music of my youth; The Clash and Fishbone and that whole music scene. I still have all that music to this day. There was some great music going on in the late 70s and 80s.

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.

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.