39 Quotes by Crispin Glover

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.

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.

Realism is always subjective in film. There’s no such thing as cinema verite.

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.

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.

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.

In the past, I’ve never tried to discount or stop what people are saying because on some levels I find it interesting.

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

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