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The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen.

John Cusack

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John Cusack
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: June 28
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Hopefully as you get older you get more selfless. That would be probably a good goal. I don't know if we do, though.
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I don't agonize over decisions as much these days. The criteria of what's important to me is clear.
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The elderly have so much to offer. They're our link with history.
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Don't buy into the corporate mythology that's been rammed down our throats for all these years.
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My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.
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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.
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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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But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em.
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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.
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I try not to dwell on the past. I'm not a big go-back-and-try-to-relive-your-past kinda person.
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I think when you get to the point where you don't need to be in love, then you could be in love. You have to just be OK with yourself-and that's a long process.
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I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it.
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