I ended up getting jobs on film - working in all areas of production. So, I never went to film school. Never took a film class.
I look at Zach Braff, who did "Garden State", which was just great, and he plays a doctor on TV, and I bet he's thinking the same thing.
I was scared that I was going to go down being known as a doctor from a TV show.
I'm very anti-Million Dollar Baby. I think it's a rotten message. When we were filming Friday Night Lights we had a kid break his neck, a 15-year-old, who became a quadriplegic.
It's a tricky thing. You want to get out of it, but it's very hard. If you're not careful, you can overstay your welcome.
It's always an interesting sort of adventures that gets someone into a movie.
Michael Mann's always been one of my heroes.
"Splinter Cell", a film based on the video game, is going excellent. J.T. Petty is doing the weight of the writing on it, but I'm going to take all the credit.
The last two acting roles I've taken were was Collateral with Michael Mann and Corky Romano with Chris Kattan.
The thing with Michael Mann is called The Kingdom, about an American FBI agent who goes to Saudi Arabia to investigate a bombing.
Then they started pulling me in and I was very resistant. All the other actors would be saying write more, more dialogue for me, and I'd always be saying 'No, less, less'.
There's a picture of the real Coach Gary Gaines in the book and he's sitting in the locker room after a game, and he just looks so much like Billy Bob, that we went to him.
Truth is, we offered it to Tom Hanks, which pretty much every movie in America does, but Tom passed. Billy Bob said that Hanks recently called and said he's voting for all of us for Oscars, he loved the film.
When I look back at it, I'm mostly amazed at how poorly it was shot. David Kelley is a great writer, and I thought the scripts were great, but it just looks so cheap.
You might make a lot of money, but it's very hard to get out from under that rug. The more you can reinvent yourself, the better - and unfortunately TV is designed not to let you redesign yourself.
Art is good but it isn't the best.
Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.
Even if you're not going anywhere, don't get in the way.
Perhaps it's more merciful to forget the dead instead of remembering them.
The only time a man thinks is when he's alone.
The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.
When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.
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