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Songwriting and screenwriting aren't that different to me.
Billy Bob Thornton
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Billy Bob Thornton
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 4
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So we are headed for a time when there won't be anything but movies that are essentially made like video games, and actors will become obsolete, and then the big stars will be people who live in Brentwood or wherever it is, and they have a show called, I don't know, Pool Parties of Brentwood or something like that.
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I think Americana music is music that is generally more singer/songwriter oriented. It has more to do with the songwriting. The music, it's more like stories set to music.
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I tend to like to move on. I don't sit around and dwell on things much.
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Kids won't watch older movies - they want to see what's hip right now.
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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.
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I don't know how to type so I handwrite everything.
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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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Basically there are no stars anymore. The audience is the star.
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If someone is talking to you and tells you that you ought to do something, and you can tell they mean it, those are the scary people. Those are the people you want to watch out for.
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