208 Quotes by 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.

It's supposed to feel good to throw a brick at the right people. There is a long tradition of naming and ridiculing and shaming and calling the villains what they are. Usually it was the artistocracy of the day and satire was the only way to speak truth to power.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

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.

I was never interested in being an overly public person.

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.

But, you know, I'm sorry, I think democracy requires participation. I mean, I don't want to proselytize but I do feel some sort of duty to participate in the process in some way other than just blindly getting behind a political party.

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.

I think any actor can probably identify with being a professional liar. You don't always look at yourself that way, but I know a lot of days I do.