Miles Davis, my one and only real hero of my life. I met him [because] every time I had a movie interview, I would shift the conversation to jazz. Miles, when I finally met him, he knew he had a sucker walking in the door. Because his people told him, “This guy plays the trumpet and every freakin’ interview he has ever given, he’s talked about you.”

Peter Weller

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The goals are not about the sweet smell of success as much as it's about enjoying a damn day on the movie set... I live in a complete state of grace.

Peter Weller

smell goal sweet

My career was always full of risks one way or another, and that's the way I like it.

Peter Weller

risk careers way

When I go to the movies, I like romance, comedy, and thrillers. I hate gore.

Peter Weller

romance comedy hate

Here we are signing autographs for people who essentially know know how to write their name and are functionally literate. But if you cease to teach cursive writing, how does one know how to, I don’t know, replicate the Declaration of Independence? Or the orations of Cicero? Is it just going to be on the internet?

Peter Weller

independence writing people

I don't care for horror and fantasy films. I never go to see them in the theater. I know I've played in many of them, but I didn't do them because of their genre - I did them just because I loved their scripts.

Peter Weller

fantasy scripts care

The best reason to go to the movies is to be with other people. Eating the popcorn, being with other people you don't know.

Peter Weller

popcorn eating people

I'm just gonna be real grateful to be on any freaking movie set for the rest of my life.

Peter Weller

being-real grateful real

I rarely do autograph shows. Maybe two or three a year. Just to keep my price up. Also I've got too much other stuff to do. I have to teach Renaissance art.

Peter Weller

teach art

I'm finishing my Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance history.

Peter Weller

renaissance finishing italian

I steer away from episodic TV; it burns you out.

Peter Weller

steers tvs

Art has absolutely changed my life.

Peter Weller

changed-my-life changed art

I play in a jazz sextet. So I don't have time to do a lot of conventions. The good thing is, when I do them, it does puts me back in touch with the people who go to movies. I do these shows just to stay in touch with them.

Peter Weller

jazz good-things people

A lot of things I don't do well; I don't do warm and fuzzy well.

Peter Weller

warm-and-fuzzy fuzzy wells

Television is an isolating experience, sadly enough. I'm sorry to say it. But as good as it ever gets, it's still isolating. You sit in your home and visit with no one.

Peter Weller

sorry home television

I went to North Texas State, one of the great jazz schools. When I realized I wasn't going to be Miles Davis, I switched my major to English and theater.

Peter Weller

i-realized jazz school

It's not good to meet you heroes. The humanity in them or the a**hole in them will bring it down. And you don't want to do that.

Peter Weller

humanity hero

There is a good news and bad news about a remake. When you remake something, if you futz with the theme, you are in danger. Because people get it - they get the theme. They know what is galvanizing, what is energizing.

Peter Weller

danger people

If you've got kids you know you've only got one prayer: "Let my kids outlive me." That's the bottom of everything.

Peter Weller

bottom prayer kids