Billy Bob Thornton Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• People think you have to be tortured or miserable to write, but I'm finding that I get inspired a lot more these days before I'm happy.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Writing, Thinking, People

• Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Dream, Writing, Kids

• I generally have lyrics first, but you can't help that when you're writing lyrics you start to get a melody in your head. So they come kind of simultaneously.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Writing, Firsts, Helping

• You can write when you're dyslexic, you just can't read it. But I started writing short stories as a child and I found the short story format a real nice one. I love short stories and I love short documentaries or short films of any kind.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Short Love, Children, Real

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• I write songs on guitar and that's about how good of a guitar player I am. I can write songs on it.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Song, Writing, Player

• I never wanted to write a book, and people have asked me for years to do it.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Book, Writing, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Writing, Character, Stories

• If you want anybody to have a different voice, you really have to visualize and hear the voices of all these people. Sometimes when I write with specific actors in mind, it helps.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Writing, Voice, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• My songs aren't built around choruses or hooks or anything like that. That's kind of how I write screenplays too.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Song, Writing, Hook

• Usually when I'm writing, I kind of know what it is before I start writing and I write stream of consciousness style.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Writing, Style, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm not really a full-time director, I just like to direct the things that I write because I think I'm going to know it better than someone else.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Writing, Thinking, Directors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Television is making, there was in independent film renaissance late '80s through the mid-90's. It was an amazing time. Television is doing that right now. So that's why everybody wants to do it. I mean if you're writing stuff like, you know, Fargo, or True Detective, or any of these things that are on, Breaking Bad, there are no rules in television.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Mean, Independent, Writing

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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