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I always know exactly where my stories take place, which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the other stuff. I worry though, who wants to keep reading stories about Kalamazoo?

Billy Campbell

Oh, I’m nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I’m nerdy about board games.
BILLY CAMPBELL

Fun Games Reading
I’m not sitting there thinking for a week and a half, before I’m supposed to go in front of a network president to do something. That just gives you time to be nervous.
BILLY CAMPBELL

Gives Nervous President Supposed Thinking
To me, the AMC brand is great storytelling – they call it slow-burn storytelling.
BILLY CAMPBELL

Brands Burn Slow Storytelling
A destination wedding weeds out all the people who might potentially get their noses out of joint, so only the troupers would be there.
BILLY CAMPBELL

Destination Potential Wedding Weed
I always know exactly where my stories take place, which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the other stuff. I worry though, who wants to keep reading stories about Kalamazoo?
BILLY CAMPBELL

Imagination Reading Worry
I think it would be lovely to see some features on a disc of ‘The Rocketeer,’ with some reminiscing. I think that would be dynamite.
BILLY CAMPBELL

Lovely Reminiscing Thinking
I grew up 60 minutes way from Richmond, in Charlottesville, Virginia and, as a child, I was obsessed with the Civil War. I used to do re-enactments and all that stuff.
BILLY CAMPBELL

Children Obsessed War
I tend to get comfortable with the dialogue and find out who the person is in the script and try to hit that. People are sort of independent of their occupations and their pastimes. You don’t play a politician or a fireman or a cowboy – you just play a person.
BILLY CAMPBELL

Cowboy Independent Play
I don’t have any complex plans for playing a character. I think all I try to do is not make too many bad guy faces and not ever try to seem too good. I just try to put it in the middle somewhere.
BILLY CAMPBELL

Character Guy Middlemen Thinking Try
I would love to see a sequel to ‘The Rocketeer.’ I’d love to see that! I don’t know that I would be in it.
BILLY CAMPBELL

Fashion Long Play
On land, you can walk away from people, from unpleasant situations. But when you’re on a ship for 14 months with 49 other people, if you don’t resolve your issues it literally could mean – and this would be an extreme circumstance – the sinking of the ship.
BILLY CAMPBELL

Issues Land Mean
My favorite board game is a board game I’m working on right now. It’s a game of Napoleonic era naval warfare, and it’s going to be fun.
BILLY CAMPBELL

Board Favorite Fun Games Going Nerdy
For me, the experience of making the show is very much like being in a novel. I enjoy getting the new script. I make a cup of tea and I read it the same way I would read a book, with the same amount of joy.
BILLY CAMPBELL

Book Joy Novel Script Tea
I may be a little long in the tooth to play ‘The Rocketeer.’ But I would love to be a part of that in some form or fashion.
BILLY CAMPBELL

Fashion Little Play Thing Tooth
This is one of the ways in which television can actually be good, and even better than the movies, because it gives you a chance to tell a long story.
BILLY CAMPBELL

Actually Better Chance Good Long Story Television
The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window. They used white linen tablecloths in the dining car in those days, and real silver.
BILLY CAMPBELL

Country Past Real Trip

I always know exactly where my stories take place, which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the other stuff. I worry though, who wants to keep reading stories about Kalamazoo?

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I always know exactly where my stories take place, which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the other stuff. I worry though, who wants to keep reading stories about Kalamazoo?

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