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I know that I loved music before I loved movies, simply because I didn't see movies as a kid.

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Billy Bob Thornton
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 4
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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.
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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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I didn't cry at my father's funeral, and I felt guilty about that. Of course, he got sick not too long after he and I had had that final altercation, and I felt real guilty because of that, too. Then years later, one day, I was probably in my late twenties, early thirties, and I just broke down crying, because I finally got my father.
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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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I'm not really a guy who wants to be a director, anyway.
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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!
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I always say if you're going to do a movie about Charles de Gaulle get a Frenchman, you know. I'm not French. And yeah, sure I could get with a dialect coach and work for six months trying to talk like a Frenchman. But there's some French actors. Just get one of them, you know.
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Normally you're 21 years old and you look like Tom Cruise and you do a couple underwear commercials first and then you're a movie star. That didn't happen for me. So it was all quite overwhelming.
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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.
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Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story.
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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.
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I've led a very eclectic life.
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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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My dad didn't hug me every day and say he loved me and anything like that.
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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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Kids won't watch older movies - they want to see what's hip right now.
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Just the other day, my assistant was on the line with Calvin Klein. Golly, I usually shop at Sears.
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I've been married five times, and people think that's some bizarre thing, yet I've got buddies who refuse to get married and have sex with 15 people a week. I'm like Which is better? At least I was trying.
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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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I’m not much of a drinker, so I’m going to eat seven pounds of pork.
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