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
father kids way
I can't imagine laying a finger on my kids. I go the other way and probably because my father was so abusive.
mom years psychics
My mom was a psychic. And there's a movie called The Gift that I'd written years ago with Cate Blanchett which is loosely based on my mom.
girl drama school
I got in drama class in high school and I only got in there because there were girls and I thought maybe I could make a grade above a C in something.
short-love children real
You can write when you're dyslexic, you just can't read it. But I started writing short stories as a child and I found the short story format a real nice one. I love short stories and I love short documentaries or short films of any kind.
guy nervous
I actually am a phobic twitchy sort of nervous guy.
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.