#w

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. ↗

— John Cusack

#angeles #ended #famous #friends #hard

If I'm in something that I think is kinda good, it stays with me like a fever dream for a long time afterwards. I don't recall the finished product so much as the feeling of making it. ↗

— John Cusack

#dream #feeling #fever #finished #finished product

I never wanted to come off as self-important. ↗

— John Cusack

#i #never #off #wanted

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. ↗

— John Cusack

#because #best #best way #control #could

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

— John Cusack

#award #give #give me #go #i

But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that over the next month and a half. ↗

— Stanley Tucci

#clock #half #hours #i #month

My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s. ↗

— John Cusack

#before #brooks #citizen #citizen kane #classic

Sometimes you meet people and you feel like you've known them for a long time. ↗

— John Cusack

#known #like #long #long time #meet

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. ↗

— John Cusack

#best #fun #get #kill #lose

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