Directing 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 ThorntonIf you look at a character as a mountain over there that you have to climb, then I think you've lost 50 percent of the air.
Billy Bob ThorntonMovies 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.
Billy Bob ThorntonI figured I would have to tell someone to kiss my ass before it was all over, and I have -- twice.
Billy Bob ThorntonWe didn't have a movie theatre until I was about nine, so I just didn't see them. But, once I got into movies I loved them.
Billy Bob Thornton