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As most characters are that I play, there's a lot of me in it, anyway.

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Billy Bob Thornton
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 4
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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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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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I'm not really a guy who wants to be a director, anyway.
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I think people can live a religious life and yet believe in things maybe outside the box a little bit.
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Life is magical and I guess my thing is I wish that people wanted that magic.
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If you've written it you know exactly whoever you're playing if you've written it you already know it. As a matter of fact, you've already made the movie if you wrote it. You've made it in your head.
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Everything is very convenient now and it would be real nice if somehow people started going back to the movie theater. And it's people of my generation. It's their fault in a lot of ways, people over 40. It's their fault that the only movies are about robots and beautiful vampires. It's wild, all vampires are beautiful.
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At my dad's funeral I didn't cry when my dad died. I did it years later when I forgave him, which I've totally forgiven him and I loved my dad.
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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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Anytime you get a chance to play some extreme character, in any direction, it's always a great blessing.
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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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