Peter Weller Quotes

(On the enduring popularity of RoboCop (1987)) "It was my contribution to cinema".

(Talking about RoboCop 2 (1990)): There was a couple of things that made the character more human that weren`t used. I can`t remember exactly what the scenes were, I just remember wondering why they weren`t in.

(On turning down the third Robocop film): I have to say it didn`t quite have the third great act that RoboCop (1987) had and, by the time I was into the second one, I knew I was tired of it, plus David Cronenberg had asked me to do Naked Lunch (1991) with him, so I was happy to do it, and was happy to be gone.

(Further talking about Robocop): "Aside from the action-adventure, the corruption, corporate machinery gone berserk and so on, the heart of all this is a morality tale. It`s like Beauty and the Beast, or the Tin Man of The Wizard of Oz. It`s a great little jewel of a human story."

(Talking about making the original RoboCop (1987)): When I was making it, I knew it was going to be a great thing, but you never know whether they are going to be successful or not. I knew we where making a fantastic social allegory, and, I don`t want to sound pretentious, a spiritual one as well.

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. You see, when people are rubbin` up against other people like that, under the environs of being entertained or communicated with, humanity`s better off. People expand themselves, they get out of themselves. Love. Television doesn`t do that. 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. You drink your beer, eat your popcorn and be alone, that`s what you do. With movies, you gotta get out, man. You gotta get out and be with people. And that`s the best thing and that`s the responsibility. Once people are out and in a movie theater, then you can inform them about themselves.

"To inform. That`s it, to inform and entertain. But then only to inform. That means to expand an audience`s sense of humanity. That`s all." (on an actor`s responsibility to his audience)

To inform. That`s it, to inform and entertain. But then only to inform. That means to expand an audience`s sense of humanity. That`s all. (on an actor`s responsibility to his audience)

(Talking about Robocop 2): "There was a couple of things that made the character more human that weren`t used. I can`t remember exactly what the scenes were, I just remember wondering why they weren`t in."

He told me to put on a suit and go downtown to the old Bowery Bank - because it has neo-Roman architecture - where they`d like to interview me on tape about Rome.

I have nothing to do with sci-fi. I`ve done a couple of sci-fi movies. I never approach them as that genre. You know, they`re all dramas. Sci-fi, the idiom of sci-fi has created a context into which you can pour all sorts of great human dilemmas. So that`s what I`m directing. I`m directing a modern-day humanist drama with comic elements.

There was a general awareness in the countries affected that there would be problems, but the magnitude has caught everyone unawares.

The movie is really a grandiose and full of life rock-and-rolling adventure story, but it`s really about peace and love. It`s also about a guy trying to find peace.

My fascination with ancient Rome started as a kid back in Texas when my father turned me on to Robert Graves, who wrote `I, Claudius,`

(On turning down the third Robocop film): "I have to say it didn`t quite have the third great act that Robocop 1 had, and by the time I was into the second one I knew I was tired of it, plus David Cronenberg had asked me to do Naked Lunch with him, so I was happy to do it, and was happy to be gone."

Julius Caesar built that bridge over the Rhine in 10 days. Ten days! They`ve been trying to fix the Van Wyck since I moved to New York City in 1971. Twenty years and $20 billion later and we still don`t have a subway to JFK.

For us to believe what we see, feel and touch in time, linear time as we know it, is the only extant context in which life happens. I think it`s fairly naive, man, you know. So, you know, who`s to say there`s not a parallel universe?