Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
After you've done 60-something movies, you're always looking for something different. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
The movies I've made about the South, they were my experience and it's something that I know. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
The great movies that I want to do now are being made for $2.5-million budgets. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I love independent film so much, and that's kind of where I made my mark. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
The thing about a motion picture is that look of film on a big screen takes you into a magical. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that I'm really relevant as a director anymore. Or as a writer, either, to tell you the truth. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
The independent film business is pretty much gone. Now you can do it in a format where you actually get to develop… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I think everybody's contemplating TV now, because mid-level and high-budget independent films are not being made now. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Independent films now, they want to give you $2 million to make it, 21 days to shoot it and they want 10… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
The only times you'll see me in terms of the movie business is when I have to go to the premieres of… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Directing takes a good chunk of your life out. It's a very hard thing. As an actor, you go in for a… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
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… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Television is making, there was in independent film renaissance late '80s through the mid-90's. It was an amazing time. Television is doing… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
You can write when you're dyslexic, you just can't read it. But I started writing short stories as a child and I… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
These days movies are cut very quickly and sort of fragmented and I tend to do slower moving stories where people develop… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
When you're a director, for two years or at least a year and a half, that's what your life is. So if… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Movies now, you can watch a trailer for a movie on TV now and you're not sure if it's a video game… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Directing is a big responsibility to take on. I think I'm only good at doing things I know very well. I don't… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I've really dreamed of doing television. All of us do television, coming up. But when I was coming up, television was a… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Robert Duvall taught me years ago. He said, "You know theatre is not real. I don't like plays." You know, he doesn't like plays.… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share
I think I fully commit myself to any role to the extent to which I can. In other words there's some roles that maybe… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share
Just the other day, my assistant was on the line with Calvin Klein. Golly, I usually shop at Sears. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share
Heavy role in the movies that I've done that I have loved and fit my soul; A Simple Plan, Monster's Ball, Sling Blade, One… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share
When I was coming up in the '80s television, if you were on television that meant either you were a young actor just coming… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share
The movies I've made about the South, they were my experience and it's something that I know. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share
Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share
I've been largely an improvisational actor for most of my career, except for when I've worked with the Coen brothers. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share
I always have an idea before we even start the movie because if you hire the wrong person, within a couple of days you're… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share
People want the truth but they only want the truth so they can talk bad about you on the blog or on television. They… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share
Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share
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… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share
People a lot of times say that you know it must be hard to direct yourself. That's a myth. It's easier to direct yourself.… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share
