Karl Glusman

Cannes is a fun festival, but some people use it as a place to smash a movie, or to destroy it.

I think the really great movies and plays are ones that haunt you or disturb you.

I want to be a part of movies that I want to see.

You need to have hobbies and love and family and travel.

I don't think anyone just becomes something overnight. I think it's many, many hours in the dark, there's all that time that people don't see you doing smaller things or struggling along. Then suddenly you get a break and people are like, 'He came out of nowhere!'

If I'm being completely honest, when it comes to artificial intelligence and computer programming... I bought this little book at Barnes and Noble called 'Artificial Intelligence for Dummies' and that was quite a helpful resource for my work.

My mother has always been a proponent of equality on the screen.

Both my parents are doctors.

I think many young actors want to be daring. They want to surprise their fellow actors as well as their audiences.

I admire Mark Rylance immensely.

If you watch a movie and you feel nothing, what's the point?

I was never a guy particularly proud of his body.

You want to make movies that people are going to remember.

After my parents split up my mother moved to Lake Oswego and I went to Lake Oswego High School. And then finally I went to Portland State University for a year and a half before dropping out and moving to New York.

We love 'Friends.'

With 'Enter the Void,' I didn't know you could go to this place of surrealism in a movie. I felt sick when I watched it. It really stuck with me.

Although I do love popcorn movies - I'll totally be there to see 'Star Wars' - it's rare to see something in a movie theater that goes beyond our expectations.

My acting teacher always told us the script should be crumpled up and covered in coffee stains and peanut butter smudges - you should have that bad boy on you at all times.

I was too self-conscious in high school. I wanted to fit in or to disappear. I was a very uncomfortable person in high school, very uncomfortable with my body and I just didn't feel like I fit in. I wanted to be invisible.

I took my first acting classes in Portland at Portland State University and the Portland Actors Conservatory.

I was born in the Bronx but my parents hated living in the Bronx so they moved to Oregon when I was 6 months old.

When you do any relationship scene, you do fall in love with your acting partner a bit.

I've actually seen guys do that - cheat on their girlfriends at parties and then lose it with rage when they find out they've also been cheated on.

The life of an actor is you do a job and it's done, then you get another job, someone tells you about one or you have to find it... it can feel a little bit like that scene in '2001' when HAL detaches the astronaut from the spaceship and he's floating off into space on this terrible trajectory into the abyss. At least, it can feel like that.

It's expensive to shoot on film.