Billy Bob Thornton on recasting himself for TV

A: I never thought about it much because when I was coming up, the guys that I came up with — Bill Paxton, Bruce Willis and Dennis Quaid — we all used to say about guys we knew, like in the 1980s, they were going to do a TV movie, and ... it’s like his career is over. Next stop is [TV celebrity gameshow] Hollywood Squares. So we had a different viewpoint about television and a whole different perception of it, and it was true. Now, it sort of crept up on me. I sort of felt that way up until three or four years ago, because I wasn’t really clued in. I don’t keep up. I live my life in a very secluded way. ... All of a sudden, the higher-budget independent films, or the mid-level budget studio movies — the $20 (Dh73 million)-25 million (Dh91 million) studio movies — and that’s where I lived ... there was no place for me.

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