Bill Paxton Quotes (16 Quotes)

When I first read the Eddie Lowery connection in the script, I thought this scenario was created because it was Disney making the movie,

Well, directing myself meant there was one less star I had to deal with Really, it was great. It was a big departure for me but I had a great time.

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

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

I want people to re-evaluate me. My dream would be to make films like Clint Eastwood did... You have to be a self-starter out here at a certain point. It's important to take the reigns or, otherwise, you can be regaled to obscurity so quickly.

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.

When you and I and the average Joe on the street think about polygamy, it's usually what we've read about it -- the compounds beyond city limits, the child brides, women being kept in a cultish fashion. The creators saw the show for what it was ... kind of a weird way to refract contemporary mores about marriage.

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

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

I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.

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

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.

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

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

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

I grew up in Texas, but that was 20 years ago. Last year, in Fort Worth, they had hail the size of softballs. We're seeing more and more powerful storms, of all types, almost on a biblical level.