Billy Bob Thornton Quotes

I see lots of cycles, for sure. There's the whole post-Star Wars era, but I don't think it's the whole story.

I feel the wall that divides films screened online and in the cinema is becoming less and less significant.

You know you're getting older when - well, first off, when you read almost any story that begins 'You know you're getting older when.' But you also know it when you not only never heard of the musical guest on a given 'Saturday Night Live' but never heard of the host, either.

The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.

I think my films kind of walk this line that I'm proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.

When I was growing up in the '60s I would have thought that westerns would last forever.

I know it's superficial, and you can't measure art, which is supposed to be up to the individual, but I've watched the Oscars since I was a baby with my mother.

It's weird because movie-making, and especially movie theaters, have always been so old-school, and it wasn't until 3-D that a lot of them were forced to have digital projectors and even digital distribution.

It is important that alongside the blockbusters there are stories that can inspire and audiences can experience together in the cinema.

I think the reason vampire movies have been so popular over time is that they share so many parallels with human beings.

Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.

In my office, we were talking about the fact that they'd announced a remake of 'A Star is Born,' and I was bemoaning the idea of a fourth remake. And the young guys who work in my office were giving me blank looks, like, 'What's 'A Star is Born?'

The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.

When people are like, 'What do you think of this vampire craze?' - well, I don't really feel like it ever ended, personally, 'cause I've always been into them, like 'Underworld.'

I class myself with Rin Tin Tin. People in the Depression wanted something to cheer them up, and they fell in love with a dog and a little girl.

Cinema now can't be just about introspection and atma manthan; such topics won't work.

Hong Kong movies were really popular in my generation.

The kind of films that are made depends on the kind of films that are becoming hits. That's why I always say you should be very careful about which film you decide to watch.

I go to anything at the cinema that gets the hype. I'm so easily seduced by it.

I must say, I was a very filmy kid. I used to watch a lot of TV and get very influenced by Bollywood.

The superheroes have taken over all the screens in the world. And good luck to them: they're making a lot of money for a lot of people. But the studios are going to become victims of their own success. People are going to get bored with that stuff.

Like a lot of people, I also grew up watching Bollywood films.

I was always interested in movies the way everyone is interested. That is, I liked to go to the movies

Why can't rappers just say nice things? Like I wanna take your clothes off and hang them up in the closet real nice.

When I'm on the road making a movie in another city, on my day off, I always go to the movies. I love going to the movies. You get a ticket and sit there, and it's very interesting to be around people who aren't personally invested in you, in any way. They're just going to the movies.