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I've led a very eclectic life.
Billy Bob Thornton
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Billy Bob Thornton
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 4
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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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[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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The independent film business is pretty much gone. Now you can do it in a format where you actually get to develop a character over a period of time.
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Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.
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LA has its own vibe. It has a charm that a lot of people overlook sometimes.
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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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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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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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Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we're the biggest weirdos on the block.
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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 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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Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids and family and friends, and I don't like bad things. I don't think they're funny, and it's irresponsible to make movies that don't show you how that's not good.
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Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story.
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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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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 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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Kids won't watch older movies - they want to see what's hip right now.
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