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
hate judging tests
I hate tests. It's a really lousy way to judge a person's ability.
age normal demented
I didn't have a normal background - I was completely demented from a very early age!
careers up-to-you old-days
In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it's all up to you.
people naked hundred
It's very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there's nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set.
feelings slow-motion forget
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.
art hammers groups
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.
levels parody filmmaker
When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.
death
I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.
love paid sure
I've had a career that is kind of under the radar, but it sure is varied, and I've been so blessed to be able to get paid to do something I love to do.
business director easy realize resource selling town whether
It's easy to get jaded. It's easy to get lazy. It's easy to get too self-centric, like, 'Why me? What about my needs?' It has nothing to do with that. But you see, you are the thing you are selling whether you are a director or an actor in this business. It's very tough. The town doesn't realize that its greatest resource is its people.
art came dad decided exposed films growing guess high hollywood school theater
I came out to Hollywood when I was just 18, and my dad, he was really into Hollywood and theater and art, and I guess growing up, he exposed me to a lot of culture, and I just started making Super-8 films in high school and decided I wanted to be a filmmaker.
father middle name
On the Internet, on IMDB, they've got that my middle name as Archibald. I don't have a middle name! My father doesn't like middle names.
fate destiny discipline
Through readiness and discipline, we are the masters of our fate.
bible men thinking
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.