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 CAMPBELLI’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 CAMPBELLOh, I’m nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I’m nerdy about board games.
BILLY CAMPBELLVancouver is one of my favorite places on earth. It’s gray and rainy there a lot of the time, but for some reason, even though it’s gray and rainy, I feel like it’s a sunny day.
BILLY CAMPBELLThe 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 CAMPBELLI don’t really collect the mementos. I do steal books off of sets. If there’s a library on the set, you can bet that I’ll steal away with a book or two.
BILLY CAMPBELLYou learn a lot about other people. You learn a lot about yourself.
BILLY CAMPBELLMy 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 CAMPBELLOn 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 CAMPBELLFor 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 CAMPBELLThe kind of people that love ‘The Rocketeer’ are the kind of people that love good storytelling and innocence and a better world, so to speak, so they’re almost always nice people to bump into.
BILLY CAMPBELLThis 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 CAMPBELLThe feeling of being at sea has put me in touch with who I am to a greater degree than if I had been on land all these years. So, in a roundabout way, I imagine it does inform my acting.
BILLY CAMPBELLI 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 CAMPBELLNice, People, Bumps, Inocence, Always
BILLY CAMPBELLI 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 CAMPBELLThe South Downs of England reminded me a bit of my Old Virginia homeland.
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