Quote: 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. [Crispin Glover]
Quote: I'm not somebody who believes that darkness is something that should necessarily be hidden from children or anything like that. [Crispin Glover]
Quote: The United States has it's own propaganda, but it's very effective because people don't realize that it's propaganda. And it's subtle, but it's actually a much stronger propaganda machine than the Nazis had but it's funded in a different way. [Crispin Glover]
Quote: Most of the actors in the film have Down syndrome, ... Originally this was going to be a short film to promote to corporate entities that it's a viable idea to work with a cast with Down syndrome. [Crispin Glover]
Quote: It's originally a mathematical term, ... Something that veers off the line is eccentric, not concentric. If you look at the poetry of that, there really isn't anything wrong with going off the line and exploring different things. [Crispin Glover]
Quote: Yes because it is always a bit nerve wracking when you lay something out there that is meaningful to you to be judged by others, after a point you become very close to your film and you want everyone to ?get it' -- but that is an unrealistic expectation -- No, because I am here among friends, I know that, I can feel that. [Crispin Glover]
Quote: I usually describe it as, 'Being the adventures of a young man whose principal interests are snails, salt, pipe and how to get home -- as tormented by a hubristic, racist inner psyche. [Crispin Glover]
Quote: He took exception to that, and he's right, ... This is culture. What is counterculture is 'The Anna Nicole Smith Show. [Crispin Glover]
Quote: 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. [Crispin Glover]
Quote: 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. [Crispin Glover]
Quote: People watch movies - and it's vague ideas, it's vague notions, but people pick up on these things, that they are supposed to think certain ways or that they're not supposed to think, basically, and they don't. [Crispin Glover]
Quote: In the past, I've never tried to discount or stop what people are saying because on some levels I find it interesting. [Crispin Glover]
Quote: In the past, I've never tried to discount or stop what people are saying because on some levels I find it interesting. [Crispin Glover]
Quote: When I started acting in the film industry when I was 16 years old, in 1980, I was going to all the revival theaters in Los Angeles. They were playing mostly films from the '60s and '70s, some from the early '20s and '30s, before that Hays commission. Those films did question things a lot, and there definitely was a switch in 1934. You can see very distinctly in 1934, it's harder to understand what the real culture was. Films made before 1934, you can really kind of see the racism, sexism, drug use, etc. that was going [Crispin Glover]
Quote: For me, listening to Beethoven and Tchaikovsky in particular, there's an emotional aspect - very different kinds of emotional aspects from those two composers, nonetheless, very strong emotional aspects from both of those composers. [Crispin Glover]
Quote: 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. [Crispin Glover]
Quote: The United States has it's own propaganda, but it's very effective because people don't realize that it's propaganda. And it's subtle, but it's actually a much stronger propaganda machine than the Nazis had but it's funded in a different way. [Crispin Glover]
Quote: 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. [Crispin Glover]
Quote: A good thing to live by is to go after what truly interests you. [Crispin Glover]
Quote: People watch movies - and it's vague ideas, it's vague notions, but people pick up on these things, that they are supposed to think certain ways or that they're not supposed to think, basically, and they don't [Crispin Glover]
Quote: Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite [Crispin Glover]
Quote: My cat can eat a whole watermelon. [Crispin Glover]
Quote: A geek by definition is somebody who eats live animals. I?ve never eaten live animals. [Crispin Glover]
Quote: Ireland's just a place...people go there all the time. [Crispin Glover]