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.
My career was always full of risks one way or another, and that's the way I like it.
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.
Art has absolutely changed my life.
If you've got kids you know you've only got one prayer: "Let my kids outlive me." That's the bottom of everything.
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.
I'm just gonna be real grateful to be on any freaking movie set for the rest of my life.
A lot of things I don't do well; I don't do warm and fuzzy well.
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.
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.”
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
I'm finishing my Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance history.
I steer away from episodic TV; it burns you out.
When I go to the movies, I like romance, comedy, and thrillers. I hate gore.
