Latest John Cusack Quotes from Interviews

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• 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. You can push it through, and you can hire the right people.

  John Cusack

  People, Producers, Filmmaker

  Source: film.avclub.com

• In the United States, we can talk about ISIS, but we can't talk about Palestine.

  John Cusack

  Isis, United States, Palestine

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• Justice always has context.

  John Cusack

  Justice

  Twitter post from Jan 14, 2018

• If you help manufacture an enemy that's really evil, you can point to the fact that it's really evil, and say, "Hey, it's really evil."

  John Cusack

  Evil, Enemy, Hey

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• Radical Islam and US exceptionalism are in bed with each other. They're like lovers, methinks.

  John Cusack

  Islam, Bed, Lovers

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• I never really saw myself as an activist but at some point the activist is the only moral position to take.

  John Cusack

  Saws, Moral, Activist

• These people say free markets are the way to go, but wink, wink, the markets aren't really free. They're just a protectionist racket, and we have to pay for it all on every level. It's really quite extraordinary, and immoral, and illegal. These things need to be named, and shamed, and outed, and mocked, and prosecuted.

  John Cusack

  People, Needs, Levels

• These guys who talk about free markets, they're not ideologues; they're crooks.

  John Cusack

  Guy, Crooks, Ideologues

• Don't buy into the corporate mythology that's been rammed down our throats for all these years.

  John Cusack

  Years, Mythology, Throat

• Get your sense of outrage back, and your sense of defiance and spirit back, and try to put these pieces together and confront the excesses of empire at every turn.

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  Trying, Together, Excess

• Not only is America a country where torture is now policy. It's now outsourced. It's given to companies at a cost-plus basis. It's a triple whammy of surreal, absolute madness.

  John Cusack

  Country, America, Cost

• We've got to force the Democrats to get a spine. If they don't want to have a spine, we should throw them out. If they don't want to stand up for the rule of law, then I'm not a Democrat.

  John Cusack

  Law, Want, Should

• The people who say they're for democracy want nothing to do with democracy.

  John Cusack

  People, Democracy, Want

• Satire is meant to have teeth; satire is meant to be dangerous. But it also happens to be fun because subversion and telling the right kind of people to go to hell is supposed to feel good.

  John Cusack

  Fun, People, Feel Good

• A lot of people know that something very drastic has happened to the very idea of America.

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  Ideas, America, People

• 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.

  John Cusack

  Liars, Thinking, Looks

  "New Again: John Cusack". Interview with Steven Goldman, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 21, 2012.

• I think everything has some politics to it. It's just whether or not it admits to it. Politics is weird. I don't even know what that means any more.

  John Cusack

  Mean, Thinking, Knows

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 27, 2007.

• Poets are political, they have to be reflections of their times [because] they're living in their times... Poetry is political in that it's standing in opposition to fascism. Good poetry asks a bunch of questions and asks the audience to interact with themselves or see themselves in it; maybe you like it or you don't like it. But the fascist sort of stuff plays on your fears and tells you to jump on the party line and gives some simple excuses - blame this person.

  John Cusack

  Party, Reflection, Simple

  "The Raven - John Cusack interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it.

  John Cusack

  Lying, Thinking, Poet

  "The Raven - John Cusack interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• It never hurts to be involved in any political or activist organization. I can never see how participation would be a bad thing. The key is being true to what you participate with and who.

  John Cusack

  Hurt, Keys, Organization

  "Talking With John Cusack". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 20, 2008.

• Once you have opened up prisoner interrogation, wiretapping, border patrol, jailing and the services of the military, when this has been turned into a for-profit business in this endless war, then we're in deep trouble.

  John Cusack

  Military, War, Borders

  "Talking With John Cusack". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 20, 2008.

• When you see a culture where the intellectual architects of the invasion are not shamed for their behavior but rewarded within the mainstream media culture, black comedy, satire, absurdism is the only response.

  John Cusack

  Media, Black, Intellectual

  "Talking With John Cusack". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 20, 2008.

• 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.

  John Cusack

  Long, People, Feel Good

  "Talking With John Cusack". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. June 20, 2008.

• I think it's very improtant and healthy to tell differnt stories than the corporatist narratives we are being asked to swallow hook, line and sinker.

  John Cusack

  Thinking, Healthy, Hook

  "Talking With John Cusack". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 20, 2008.