#thing

When you do have songs where you're going to say something, some kind of statement about cultural or social stuff, that in general people love it. People love to be challenged in that way. ↗

— Catie Curtis

#challenged #cultural #general #going #kind

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. ↗

— John Cusack

#black #black and white #evil #fact #helpful

Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's everything, you know, it's social life, it's academics, it's sports. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#balance #both #everything #find #huge

There's no such thing as a cheap laugh. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#laugh #such #thing

Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it. ↗

— John Cusack

#anything #challenging #comedy #i #into

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 there all the time, you're not holding anything back. ↗

— John Cusack

#back #because #celebrity #expose #holding

To me the goal of comedy is to just laugh, which is a really high hearted thing, visceral connection and reaction. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#connection #goal #hearted #high #just

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. ↗

— John Cusack

#attention #before #clique #doing #got

It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it. ↗

— John Cusack

#because #better #could #done #else

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

— John Cusack

#boxing match #fellini #hollywood #like #match