Billy Bob Thornton

I mean, now people are famous because they're socialites.

They go to parties and stuff.

It's unbelievable.

I mean, when I would work on sets early on with people that I grew up watching, and I'm just like, wow, I'm standing next to Andy Griffith or whoever it was, Robert Redford.

And now you start to realize that you're in a group, in an age group of actors who are looked at by...

20-year-olds or 30-year-olds like I looked at those guys because they say this stuff to me.

I've been watching you since I was a little kid, you know, and all this kind of stuff.

And it's an odd feeling.

The only thing is, and maybe I'm off base here, but

I think because, and once again, social media has a lot to do with it, I believe.

I don't think that because of our lack of, younger generations' lack of history, you know, their knowledge, how far history goes back to them.

I don't think, you know, 100 years from now, generations will look at

us the way we looked at Humphrey Bogart and Frederick March and all these different people, Spencer Tracy, Betty Davis, you know, whoever it was.

I don't think it's as important.

It goes back to the too much access, too much exposure.

And I just don't believe that in the history books, you know, 30 years from now, let's say,

They'll look at me or Quaid or Costner or whoever it is as the Bogarts and the Tracys that we revere only because society has changed so much.

Right.

Yeah, I don't think that's a bad thing.

It's a different thing.