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Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful.

John Cusack

Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.

People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.

I was raised Catholic until I was old enough to say no.

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Old

When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.

Usually I play people who just keep babbling on and on and on.

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People

Play

There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do.

The reason bin Laden staggered the planes going into the towers was so every camera would be focused on the second tower when the plane hit. It was not only the murder, but the perpetual image of the horror that permeated into people's consciousness.

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.

The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.

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

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Time

People

Nope, no sex scandals yet. But I am open to offers!

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Sex

Open

New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.

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Boxing

Hollywood

Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.

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Extreme

It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don't know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot.