Billy Bob Thornton Quotes

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 going to know that and you're going to be really panicked.

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

I used to put that I studied with Stella Adler on my resume. I never met Stella Adler. But if you told a casting director you studied with Stella Adler all the sudden they'd let you in the door.

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

Reality shows are usually created by people doing and saying stupid things.

People want the truth but they only want the truth so they can talk bad about you on the blog or on television. They want you to tell them the truth and it screws everybody.

You can get famous for doing something stupid and empty, but you do something stupid and empty and you're already famous, you lose your career.

The audience, that's who I care about.

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.

People's attention spans are a little shorter these days. Same thing with food and movies.

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

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.

When I was growing up, when I was 11 years old I was listening to The Mothers of Invention. You know, I mean I was a Frank Zappa fan in Arkansas.

If you're 25 years old dressed up like Superman at a comic book convention, that's great. If you're 78 and you're doing it, something's wrong.

Now the idea in the movie world is to make things the same. And in the TV world, the idea is to do something different, so... that's why I'm here!

I'm not sure that I'm really relevant as a director anymore. Or as a writer, either, to tell you the truth.

It's not that I don't understand it. But people think if you speak with an English accent it somehow makes you smarter.

When people wear shoes that don't fit them, it says something about their soul. Generally, I think it means they are good people.

I’m not much of a drinker, so I’m going to eat seven pounds of pork.

Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there.