With acting, you wanna see if you can get into trouble without knowing how youre gonna get out of it. Its like the exact opposite of war, where you need an exit strategy. When youre acting, you should get all the way into trouble with no exit strategy, and have the cameras rolling. – John Cusack
I dont want to produce anymore small or independent movies because its just too hard these days. – John Cusack
I force people to have coffee with me, just because I dont trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen. – John Cusack
There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all – itll be ten oclock and theyll tell you its nine. Youre looking at the clock and you cant even fathom why theyre lying. They just lie because thats what they do. – John Cusack
I think the success of a talk show depends on how true it is to the personality of the person hosting it. The shows I really admire, like Oprah and Ellen, are distinctively like their hosts, so I think my show will be successful only if we try to stay consistent to my own sense of myself. – Jane Pauley