Mountain Goat

Hollywood's most stubborn, eccentric outsider who defies every convention.

Billy Bob Thornton has carved an utterly unconventional path — from dirt-poor Arkansas roots to Oscar-winning writer-director-actor on his own fierce, idiosyncratic terms. He's famous for his extreme personal quirks (his well-documented phobias, his unusual relationships, his refusal to play the Hollywood game), walking out of interviews, and doing exactly what he wants regardless of industry expectations. Like a mountain-goat, he thrives in terrain that would break others, stubbornly self-sufficient and deeply contrarian — impossible to herd, impossible to categorize.