Crispin Glover is crazy. If there’s one thing everyone knows about him, it’s that: he’s the guy who made an album of unlistenable noise, who tried to kick David Letterman in the head, who makes intensely non-commercial films like What Is It? and It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine. But I’ve met Crispin Glover and. . . well, he doesn’t seem crazy. He seems extraordinary thoughtful, intelligent and almost deferentially respectful to his coworkers. That’s the way he comes across in this interview with IFC’s Aaron Hillis, who, like me, saw a rough cut of What Is It? over a decade ago. Again, Glover comes across as a man who knows exactly what the practical and psychological costs of his extremely unusual films are, and who is generally at peace with the reputation he knows he’s developed. The oddest thing he does in the interview is forget his age, but he says (with a laugh) "I started in film when I was eighteen, so that's a long time to have been around. I've now published four books, I've had a record out, and I've produced, directed and edited two different films that I'm proud of. It's like, at a certain point, how genuinely insane can someone who's done all that be?" — Leonard Pierce