Film Quotes by Billy Bob Thornton

The great movies that I want to do now are being made for $2.5-million budgets.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I love independent film so much, and that's kind of where I made my mark.

— Billy Bob Thornton

The thing about a motion picture is that look of film on a big screen takes you into a magical.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I'm not really a guy who wants to be a director, anyway.

— Billy Bob Thornton

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

Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story.

— Billy Bob Thornton

After you've done 60-something movies, you're always looking for something different.

— Billy Bob Thornton

The movies I've made about the South, they were my experience and it's something that I know.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I think everybody's contemplating TV now, because mid-level and high-budget independent films are not being made now.

— Billy Bob Thornton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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