Billy Bob Thornton
Billy Bob Thornton
Billy Bob Thornton is an American actor, filmmaker, singer, songwriter, and musician...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth4 August 1955
CityHot Springs, AR
CountryUnited States of America
writing helping kind
I generally have lyrics first, but you can't help that when you're writing lyrics you start to get a melody in your head. So they come kind of simultaneously.
independent character film
The independent film business is pretty much gone. Now you can do it in a format where you actually get to develop a character over a period of time.
character
As most characters are that I play, there's a lot of me in it, anyway.
people southern
I'm really influenced by Southern novelists, not many movie people. More like John Faulkner, William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Flannery O'Connor, John Steinbeck, and people like that.
character thinking mountain
If you look at a character as a mountain over there that you have to climb, then I think you've lost 50 percent of the air.
thinking kind
I think my stuff's kind of obsolete now, you know? I'm making Model Ts or something, and everybody else is making spaceships.
writing character film
Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story.
sports junkie
I'm not a TV junkie outside of sports and history really and stuff like that.
You have to really know what you're saying.
mean
When I was coming up, if you were on a TV show, that meant something was wrong with your career. Now it means something's right with your career.
acting kind realistic
Now, if you want to do realistic, kind of heavier acting stuff, you do it on Amazon or Netflix or whatever or HBO.
We don't shoot in L.A. much anymore. You know, TV and movies, most everything's shot other places.
people vampire action
Nowadays the movies that people are going to see in the theaters are the big-event movies, like Spider-Man or something, or they're 25-year-old models who are vampires, or they're very broad comedies, or they're standard action movies. So if you're going to work for a studio and do a movie for the budget that the movie needs, those are the kinds of movies you'll be in.
The great movies that I want to do now are being made for $2.5-million budgets.