“I think good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess. You don't actually consummate it, but you get to pretend, imagine what it would be like.”

American actor and screenwriter

John Cusack is an American actor and screenwriter with a career that spans more than four decades. Born in 1966, he is known for appearing in a long run of film roles that began in the 1980s. He first came to prominence in coming-of-age comedies and dramedies such as Sixteen Candles, Better Off Dead, The Sure Thing, Stand by Me, and Say Anything.... He later moved beyond his early teen-idol image into a wide range of genres, including crime thrillers, black comedies, romantic comedy, science-fiction comedy, psychological thriller, action thriller, and horror.