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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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