Crumb Quotes

(On his role in Face/Off) At the time, I was obsessing over a documentary about Robert Crumb (Crumb, 1994). He had this brother named Charles, who`s in the movie, and I stole his voice. I played a tape of the film for Nicolas Cage, and he said (imitating Cage), `Ah, yeah... errrr ... very dark. I like it.` Nic had a really big impact on me. It was my first film - I`d never been to L.A., or anything. He really urged me on and gave me the confidence to be daring.

And when I did the Untouchables, I told them going in, if you try apologizing for any of these crumb bums, get someone else to play the part.

I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing comics weren`t just kid stuff.

I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was doing stuff beyond what other writers and artists were doing. It was a step beyond Mad.