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 on movies
Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life. John Cusack on movies
I don't want to produce anymore small or independent movies because it's just too hard these days. John Cusack on movies
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. John Cusack on movies
My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s. John Cusack on movies
I think being self-referential is really narcissistic. Who's to say anybody's even thinking of you that much? But some of these movies that I've done, people still recite lines to me, even 20 years later. John Cusack on movies
It's 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, they're, like, entire movies. And they show them on cable. John Cusack on movies
Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end. John Cusack on movies
Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule. Tom Sizemore on movies
You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other - the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies. Clive Owen on movies
I go off and make movies I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls. Clive Owen on movies
The financial implode is bound to be reflected in the movies that are being made, there's no question. Clive Owen on movies
A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you've got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don't have that hunger. Clive Owen on movies
Obviously, I'm attracted to heavier movies. Clive Owen on movies
I want to be in movies that stand the test of time. Clive Owen on movies
Ultimately, to have a career in movies, to a certain extent, certainly in England, you can't sustain a career in just English movies. Clive Owen on movies
A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there. Spike Lee on movies
In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies. Stephen Sondheim on movies
You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them. Daniel Craig on movies
When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive. Daniel Craig on movies