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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.

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Billy Bob Thornton
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 4
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Basically there are no stars anymore. The audience is the star.
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People think you have to be tortured or miserable to write, but I'm finding that I get inspired a lot more these days before I'm happy.
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If you're going to take care of your kids and pay for your house and do something good for adults, you have to do something on television now.
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Nothing wrong with computer as things. They can work wonders in communications and business and medicine and everything else.
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When I was a teenager, I read the bible cover-to-cover, and I found the Old Testament, it's a pretty bloody history book.
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I'm really influenced by Southern novelists, not many movie people. More like John Faulkner, William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Flannery O'Connor, John Steinbeck, and people like that.
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My process started when I was born. The process is life experience. I believe that what makes you an artist, or at least an artist who can communicate the ideas that they want to get across, are people that have life experience.
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Anytime you get a chance to play some extreme character, in any direction, it's always a great blessing.
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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.
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Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.
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[The lyrics and melody] usually come a little simultaneously, but I would say the lyrics are first usually I have the idea for a story in my head, or few lines.
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They were on the set of Bad Santa, but I tried to keep the headphones away from them. My kids have seen Sling Blade, Armageddon, Bandits and Friday Night Lights. They have not seen Monster's Ball and nor will they ever. Even when they are 60. I will leave it in my will.
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I write songs on guitar and that's about how good of a guitar player I am. I can write songs on it.
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Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.
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I'll always consider myself a Southerner. A lot of people put California down, but my dreams were realized there.
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I actually am a phobic twitchy sort of nervous guy.
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My songs aren't built around choruses or hooks or anything like that. That's kind of how I write screenplays too.
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I never wanted to write a book, and people have asked me for years to do it.
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Kids won't watch older movies - they want to see what's hip right now.
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I have been fortunate to get some really good scripts over the years and I haven't turned down anything that I regretted so far. And my manager who I've been with for over 25 years is very good at knowing what I should and shouldn't do a lot of times.
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