Hopefully, I don’t ruin this guy’s precious script.” And then, after a couple of days of shooting,
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More Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
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You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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I think it’s your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
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No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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You’re not telling people to think, you’re telling them what to think. And also you have to be honest with yourself on that, too.
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Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you’re a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation – that people’s families and their young kids are being affected.
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The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.
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I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.
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Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.
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Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn’t mean you have to go feeling that way forever.
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Rock ‘n’ roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
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To me, it doesn’t feel like it’s just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit
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We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we’ll see what happens.
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We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing.
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I think that’s the big difference between this one [Ordinary World] and a lot of the other rock ‘n’ roll movies. They’re playing to tape, but Fred Armisen and I were actually in a rock ‘n’ roll bad together.
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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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