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Quotes about movies
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I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber. (Cusack John)
I'm not a guy who takes films for strong political messages. (Cusack John)
The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better. (Cusack John)
We wanted to do a film called The Hellfire Club, and we set it up to try to achieve that, really. With all our arrogance and bravado we wanted to make films our way - we were lucky to be making them at all really. But we wanted to do them our way - we want character driven work, not plot-driven. (Cusack John)
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I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth. (Cusack John)
I mean, somebody told me the other day that David Cronenberg hadn't made a film for three-and-a-half years and that he was seriously thinking of going into a different occupation. That's kind of sad when you think about it. (Cusack John)
It's more important to shock and outrage for valid reasons than it is to, say, make a conventional film. I don't think David Cronenberg is even capable of making a safe, conventional film. (Cusack John)
The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you. (Cusack John)
Well, you can forget your troubles with those Imperial slugs. I told you I'd outrun 'em.
[Nobody is listening]
Don't everyone thank me at once. (Cusack John)
Apocalypse Now. (Cusack John)
That was a different kind of movie that existed in a different time (Cusack John)
That was a different kind of movie that existed in a different time. It's now 40 years later and the world has changed a lot, and the people have too. (Cusack John)
I look for something that has a chance to be a good movie; it's that simple. (Cusack John)
I don't do as many films as I used to because I am more involved in the process. (Cusack John)
It will happen. There is a script, but we don't have a start date yet. (Cusack John)
Steven Spielberg and I now have a script in hand that we both like. I believe that we can start with the filming soon. (Cusack John)
As me and Abel coming together made me a third-owner of this movie. I guess they had no money to pay me, so they had to give me something! (Cusack John)
But then again, you know, the pimp in TAXI DRIVER has this reason, given the environment he was living in. (Cusack John)
I thought Jack's directing job was the best thing about the film. (Cusack John)
I was out to have a good time and have some fun. It's a fun script and fun people are in the movie. (Cusack John)
It had a profound effect on me. To read first the script and then Kazantzakis's novel, uhm, it sort of came at a time when I was questioning my own approach to knowing who I am, what I am, to knowing about my spiritual side. (Cusack John)
Well, there's so much in that film that is so important to my living, you know? So many issues raised in that film, one of them you just mentioned. (Cusack John)
Well, we are not doing that film actually. At least I am not at the moment, but we are making an effort to get it done; I don't know whether we'll get the financing for it. The old story we had it, it fell out of place and this and that. (Cusack John)
The movie's already exceeded any expectations I had. I think pleasing Annie Proulx, the writer, and getting her nod of approval was the biggest success for me, for us. (Cusack John)
We certainly weren't going out of our way to make a change in the world. We didn't make the film for any kind of political movement. We never expected to change people's minds; but if it does affect people's hearts, if perceptions can get altered, that's a good thing. (Cusack John)
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