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 WellerHere 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 donโt know, replicate the Declaration of Independence? Or the orations of Cicero? Is it just going to be on the internet?
Peter WellerI'm just gonna be real grateful to be on any freaking movie set for the rest of my life.
Peter WellerI 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 WellerMiles 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, โThis guy plays the trumpet and every freakinโ interview he has ever given, heโs talked about you.โ
Peter WellerIt'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 WellerI 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 WellerI 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 WellerThe 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 WellerThere 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 WellerIf you've got kids you know you've only got one prayer: "Let my kids outlive me." That's the bottom of everything.
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