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The 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 Campbell

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.
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Book Joy Novel Script Tea
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
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.
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Before Bogged Network Overthink Supposed Week
The network wants you to make a thing that’s just a stand-alone episode, so you never get any character or continuity.
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Character Giving Long
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
A destination wedding weeds out all the people who might potentially get their noses out of joint, so only the troupers would be there.
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Destination Potential Wedding Weed
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.’
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Cities Giving 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.
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Children Obsessed War
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.
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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
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.
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Children Master Ships Squares
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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Imagination Reading Worry
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.
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Actually Better Chance Good Long Story Television
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.
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Board Favorite Fun Games Going Nerdy
Most sailing ships take what they call trainees, who pay to be part of the crew. The Picton Castle takes people who are absolutely raw recruits. But you can’t just ride along.
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Cooking People Sailing
The 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.
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The 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.

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The 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.

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