When I was coming up, if you were on a TV show, that meant something was wrong with your career. Now it means something's right with your career.
Billy Bob ThorntonDirecting takes a good chunk of your life out. It's a very hard thing. As an actor, you go in for a couple of months and do your job, and then you move onto another one. As a director, it's with you for quite some time and you're responsible for the entire thing, whether the results are good or bad, or whether people throw darts at you or put you on a pedestal.
Billy Bob Thornton