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
feelings sometimes yeah
You read something and you just feel this makes sense. And sometimes before you even read it you have a feeling that yeah, I'm probably gonna do this one.
character mean scripts
I know it's boring to say this but I always start with the script. I mean if it's well written and it's a character that I haven't necessarily played before.
thinking california guy
I've lived in California for half of my life. It's weird, everyone thinks of me as this guy who's from the South ... I'm really a Californian.
dream california people
I'll always consider myself a Southerner. A lot of people put California down, but my dreams were realized there.
growing-up kids men
When you're a kid, somebody's mid-forties, you think they're an old man. Then you grow up and it's like, I was a kid.
way gone periods
I've gone through my periods. I've read the Bible completely, all the way through twice. I did it once when I was about 20 and I did it again when I was about 30.
writing thinking directors
I'm not really a full-time director, I just like to direct the things that I write because I think I'm going to know it better than someone else.
moving cutting thinking
These days movies are cut very quickly and sort of fragmented and I tend to do slower moving stories where people develop relationships with people. I think I'd probably do a lot better if I lived in Europe - I think it's more of a European sensibility somehow.
novelists filmmaker
I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.
type knows know-how
I don't know how to type so I handwrite everything.
thinking southern quality
I think maybe I was instrumental in taking the stereotype out of the Southern actor is some ways. I would hope my legacy would be as a serious actor who told the truth and did parts based on the quality of part and not necessarily the money.
years two half
When you're a director, for two years or at least a year and a half, that's what your life is. So if you're gonna do it, you gotta be ready to do it and it has to be something you care about. I've found something that I do care about.
writing style kind
Usually when I'm writing, I kind of know what it is before I start writing and I write stream of consciousness style.
term my-own only-time
The only times you'll see me in terms of the movie business is when I have to go to the premieres of my own movies. I don't go to see ones that aren't mine because I don't even like going to mine.