Bill Paxton Quotes

• Through readiness and discipline, we are the masters of our fate.

  Bill Paxton

  Fate, Destiny, Discipline

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• When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.

  Bill Paxton

  Movie, Inspiring, Competition

  "Bill Paxton - No more days of 'Hey, aren't you Chet?'". Interview with Jonathan Litt, tech.mit.edu. May 02, 1997.

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• Stop your grinnin and drop your linen

  Bill Paxton

  Aliens, Aliens Movie, Linen

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• I didn't have a normal background - I was completely demented from a very early age!

  Bill Paxton

  Age, Normal, Demented

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• Howdy. I'm gonna separate your head from your shoulders. Hope you don't mind none.

  Bill Paxton

  Mind, Vampire, Shoulders

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• You don't really get to pick and chose what you would like to be doing. But I've been very fortunate, and I think water seeks its own level. You do gravitate towards things that you would get off on.

  Bill Paxton

  Thinking, Water, Levels

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• I hate tests. It's a really lousy way to judge a person's ability.

  Bill Paxton

  Hate, Judging, Tests

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• It's very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there's nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set.

  Bill Paxton

  People, Naked, Hundred

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.

  Bill Paxton

  Expectations, Film, Disappointed

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie.

  Bill Paxton

  Men, Thinking, Apples

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People interpret things through their owns lens, just the way they do the Bible. You can find justification for just about everything in the Bible. I think man has got a great ego when it comes to his God, whatever that is. It just seems to me that someone who wants to take on God's punishment, it just seems a huge egoism to think that he should appoint himself to take care of God's punishments.

  Bill Paxton

  Bible, Men, Thinking

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• We mystify the art of moviemaking, but it's not amystical science. You take a good screenplay, put a group togetherand you hammer it out.

  Bill Paxton

  Art, Groups, Hammers

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• In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it's all up to you.

  Bill Paxton

  Careers, Up To You, Old Days

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• Slow motion is so visually cinematic; when you create that, you create it for your audience, you let them have the feeling of what it must be like to be there. And in a movie, you can't forget the audience.

  Bill Paxton

  Feelings, Slow Motion, Forget

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.

  Bill Paxton

  Twists, Popular Song, Film

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• A good filmmaker is someone who can look at a piece and go, "This camera's really going to be a character. I want people to feel like they're being punched."

  Bill Paxton

  Character, People, Cameras

  Source: www.avclub.com

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