Billy Bob Thornton

If you fuck something up, don't worry about it.

He was letter perfect.

Once we started saying action and shit, then all of a sudden it got a little different.

Most stuff in Sling Blade was the first take.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I hate it.

I don't even – usually when I'm directing, I don't direct much anymore.

But when I do, I just kind of say, you know, you guys go whenever you're ready, you know.

But then you have ADs and PAs out there on their radios and shit, and they're all screaming shit, and it's like –

Yeah, and don't disrupt the flow here.

Just let the cats do it, you know.

I mean, Clint Eastwood has been known to say, you know, jokingly, but instead of cut, sometimes an actor I know worked with Clint, and he said when Clint was satisfied with the scene, he just goes, okay, that's enough of that shit.

Instead of cut.

It's, it's a story that nobody believes.

I've told it a couple of times and nobody believes it.

And it's the absolute truth.

Um,

I was doing one scene.

I think there were two scenes, but one of them was cut out of the thing.