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 PAXTONIt 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 PAXTONA 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 PAXTONWhen you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can’t really compete on a studio level.
BILL PAXTONThrough readiness and discipline, we are the masters of our fate.
BILL PAXTONI hate tests. It’s a really lousy way to judge a person’s ability.
BILL PAXTONI’ve always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie.
BILL PAXTONWe 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 PAXTONIt’s become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.
BILL PAXTONSlow 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 PAXTONIt’s very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there’s nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set.
BILL PAXTONYou 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 PAXTONYou 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.
BILL PAXTONIn the old days the studios guided your career. Now it’s all up to you.
BILL PAXTONI didn’t have a normal background – I was completely demented from a very early age!
BILL PAXTONStop your grinnin and drop your linen
BILL PAXTONIt’s always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.
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