John Paul Cusack (born June 28, 1966) is an American actor, producer and screenwriter. Read full biography of John Cusack →
Usually I play people who just keep babbling on and on and on.
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... →
The reason bin Laden staggered the planes going into the towers was so every camera would be focused on the second tower when the plane hit. It was... →
Getting trapped back in the '80s, it's almost like a comic nightmare, which for me is a very real nightmare. Every time I flip through the... →
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... →
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... →
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... →
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... →
I don't walk around talking about my life and spouting my philosophy to people I don't know. I mean, if I get to know them, I'll talk for... →
I grew up in Evanston and lived in Chicago for a long time, in Old Town and Wrigleyville. I did three films when I was in high school. The first was... →
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 think the more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out... →
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... →
John Paul Cusack (born June 28, 1966) is an American actor, producer and screenwriter.