Bill Paxton
Bill Paxton
William "Bill" Paxtonis an American actor and director. He has appeared in a number of films, including The Terminator, Weird Science, Aliens, True Lies, Apollo 13, Twister, and Titanic. He also starred in the HBO series Big Loveand was nominated for an Emmy Award for the miniseries Hatfields & McCoys...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth17 May 1955
CityFort Worth, TX
CountryUnited States of America
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I hate tests. It's a really lousy way to judge a person's ability.
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I didn't have a normal background - I was completely demented from a very early age!
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In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it's all up to you.
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I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie.
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It's very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there's nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set.
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Slow motion is so visually cinematic; when you create that, you create it for your audience, you let them have the feeling of what it must be like to be there. And in a movie, you can't forget the audience.
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We mystify the art of moviemaking, but it's not amystical science. You take a good screenplay, put a group togetherand you hammer it out.
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Through readiness and discipline, we are the masters of our fate.
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When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.
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People interpret things through their owns lens, just the way they do the Bible. You can find justification for just about everything in the Bible. I think man has got a great ego when it comes to his God, whatever that is. It just seems to me that someone who wants to take on God's punishment, it just seems a huge egoism to think that he should appoint himself to take care of God's punishments.
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You don't really get to pick and chose what you would like to be doing. But I've been very fortunate, and I think water seeks its own level. You do gravitate towards things that you would get off on.
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It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.