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

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

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 on at that time. And then it was all stopped.

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

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.

A geek by definition is somebody who eats live animals. I?ve never eaten live animals.

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