The Man With the Future in His Eyes

I've always been a John Cusack fan, but this just seals the deal:

Vanity Fair: Who are your heroes in real life?

John Cusack: Let’s go with Jesus. Not the gay-hating, war-making political tool of the right, but the outcast, subversive, supreme adept who preferred the freaks and lepers and despised and doomed to the rich and powerful. The man Garry Wills describes “with the future in his eyes … paradoxically calming and provoking,” and whom Flannery O’Connor saw as “the ragged figure who moves from tree to tree in the back of [one’s] mind.”

You can read the rest of this interview here.

(I posted this on Tumblr previously but it was too good not to pass along here as well.)

Comments

[Dave]

His whole interview is informative. Like things he fears. I have been doing some reading on the subject of what/how we think, or views we hold. As Francis Chan says: such arrogance! Because we hold them-they must be correct. Half the time they screwy, pickup up from relatives. or worse the media. That is how wars start.
DT

[Erin Wilson]

I don't know much about Cusack, and have to admit that I may have only seen one of his films. So thanks for the link to the interview. I never would have read it otherwise, and really appreciate his take on this.

[Terry]

That is an excellent interview..and the extract you posted is pretty profound.