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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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.