Billy Bob Thornton Independent Quotations

I've really dreamed of doing television. All of us do television, coming up. But when I was coming up, television was a black hole for actors. Now, television has a certain cache. Now everybody wants to be on TV because they're doing adult dramas. If you're an actor, it's like, "Well, get me on television," because it's the only place you can do it and also make a living at it. If my kids need shoes, I better do a TV show because I damn sure don't make any money with independent films.

I think everybody's contemplating TV now, because mid-level and high-budget independent films are not being made now.

Independent films now, they want to give you $2 million to make it, 21 days to shoot it and they want 10 movie stars in it.

The independent film business is pretty much gone. Now you can do it in a format where you actually get to develop a character over a period of time.

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.