Crispin Glover

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on. ”

A good thing to live by is to go after what truly interests you. ”

But there's a difference between having artistic interests and being psychotic. That's more than a fine line of differentiation, and I do see that a bit too much. ”

I still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as a person. ”

Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay. ”

You would think, in an ideal world, that if you were in a really good film and did a really good job, whether it was a big film or not, you would get hired a lot; but that is not my experience. ”

I like to eat and the only thing I've ever been addicted to in my life is sugar. ”

I do like things that are not necessarily a reflection of what is considered the right thing by this culture. Somehow, promoting that status quo I find uninteresting. ”

I started out as an actor but now I act to fund my own productions. I've managed to separate my mindset. ”

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cinema verite would be what Andy Warhol did with his film about the Empire State Building - eight hours or so from one angle, and even then it's not really cinema verite, because you aren't actually there. ”