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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

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
I sailed a bit as a child, but it wasn’t until I was around 40, when I was halfway through Patrick O’Brian’s ‘Master and Commander’ novels, that I had the sudden epiphany that I had to go sail on a square-rig ship.
BILLY CAMPBELL

Children Master Ships Squares
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
Some of the best auditions I’ve ever had have been when my agent called and said, ‘They want you 20 minutes ago, in an office in Century City, to see you for something.’
BILLY CAMPBELL

Cities Giving Thinking
I shampoo only once a week or so, with tree tea oil shampoo. And when I slap moisturizer on my face – just some stuff I bought in the grocery store – I pile it through my hair.
BILLY CAMPBELL

Hair Moisturizer Oil Shampoo Tree
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
To me, the AMC brand is great storytelling – they call it slow-burn storytelling.
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Brands Burn Slow Storytelling
Oh, I’m nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I’m nerdy about board games.
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Fun Games Reading
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.
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Cowboy Independent Play
The network wants you to make a thing that’s just a stand-alone episode, so you never get any character or continuity.
BILLY CAMPBELL

Character Giving Long
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 would make a horrible politician, because I wouldn’t enjoy my work.
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Enjoy Horrible Politician
I pretend I’m the producer and I think, “If I was making this movie, would I cast myself in this part?,” and if that doesn’t feel right to me, then I don’t even go audition for it.
BILLY CAMPBELL

Audition Movie Myself Pretend Producer
I don’t have time to overthink things, and I don’t have time to get bogged down in stuff. 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

Before Bogged Network Overthink Supposed Week
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
There have been times when I’ve been asked to do things and I’ve thought, “This is great! This is a great script. But, I do not believe myself in this role.”
BILLY CAMPBELL

Believe Roles Thinking

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.

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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.

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