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 didnt before. – John Cusack
Its like those high-school yearbook photos that everyone would rather not see: Oh my God, look at that mullet hair. I have those photos too, but for me, theyre, like, entire movies. And they show them on cable. – John Cusack
I kept saying that Id never live in L.A., and I didnt think I would. But thats 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 youre famous, its hard to live in a small town. – John Cusack
Theres also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air the punk rock movement made sense. – John Cusack