A biography for Bill Pullmanhasn’t been written yet.
“There's something about Warren Wilson. You can gain a lot of very important things and skills that you carry over into whatever you decide to do.”
“I don't have a favorite fruit. There are things that thrill me each turn of the season.”
“I think Westerns are always so great for clearing out the clutter and the ambiguities, and getting right to the broad strokes of that kind of situation.”
“This whole climate change and what it's doing to our environment is frightening to people.”
“I'm often confused with other actors. But the people who know my work don't have that problem.”
“The idea of taking classic American stories and reinterpreting them for a time and place is not just commercially viable. These stories also carry a sensual nature of what it meant to be an American, and they deserve to be reinterpreted.”
“I did this play, 'Expedition 6,' that I worked on for three years in between other things. It was a good, interesting time for me because I trained as a theater director, and I went back, and we toured it around.”
“It's funny: When I first heard they were thinking of me for the president in 'Independence Day,' I just assumed it was a comedy - I didn't exactly think of myself as leader-of-the-free-world material.”
“I'm a very discriminating shoe shopper. I only look for something special. In fact, I don't think I've ever bought two pairs at the same time.”
“You're always carrying something that's interfering. It's like static noise that doesn't have to be there, and you have to school yourself to clean that out.”
“My family and I are hooked on 'The Searchers.' I can't get enough of it.”
“There's something that comes into you that's so exciting when you're directing.”
“I always love challenges and doing something that I can't quite figure out.”
“I don't watch TV. I'd probably be a better person if I did, but it makes me anxious.”
“I went to school in the 1970s, and there was a lot of physical theater in those days.”
“I've never really been a television watcher, so I never watch comedies.”
“With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.”
“There's a point you get to on the stage where you're not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.”
“I was the kid who would join a sports team and be the biggest liability at first and a star player by the time the game got going. I just move very slowly.”
“I've been lucky to have opportunities with David Lynch in 'Lost Highway' and Jennifer Lynch in this movie 'Surveillance,' so I've always boomeranged around a little bit, and no one has caught my foot in the trap yet, but I think if I move fast enough... 'cos I think I got trapped a couple of times.”