Nowadays the movies that people are going to see in the theaters are the big-event movies, like Spider-Man or something, or they're 25-year-old models who are vampires, or they're very broad comedies, or they're standard action movies. So if you're going to work for a studio and do a movie for the budget that the movie needs, those are the kinds of movies you'll be in.
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 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 ThorntonIf Michelle Pfeiffer gave Mel Gibson a vial of blood to wear around his neck in a movie you'd think it was terribly romantic, everyone would cry and they'd win awards. But in real life if someone does that they'd be considered weird.
Billy Bob Thornton