Bill Paxton Quotes

I didn't have a normal background - I was completely demented from a very early age!

It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.

A good filmmaker is someone who can look at a piece and go, "This camera's really going to be a character. I want people to feel like they're being punched."

In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it's all up to you.

We mystify the art of moviemaking, but it's not amystical science. You take a good screenplay, put a group togetherand you hammer it out.

Through readiness and discipline, we are the masters of our fate.

Stop your grinnin and drop your linen

It's very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there's nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set.

Slow motion is so visually cinematic; when you create that, you create it for your audience, you let them have the feeling of what it must be like to be there. And in a movie, you can't forget the audience.

I hate tests. It's a really lousy way to judge a person's ability.

I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie.

You don't really get to pick and chose what you would like to be doing. But I've been very fortunate, and I think water seeks its own level. You do gravitate towards things that you would get off on.

Howdy. I'm gonna separate your head from your shoulders. Hope you don't mind none.

It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.

When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.