Brad Pitt
I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.Collection: Architecture
I've been no stranger to change.Collection: Change
I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong. I don't know how to explain it more. It's universal. Some people are better at dealing with it, and they sleep with no pain - not pain, arguments. I've grown quite comfortable with being at war.Collection: War
I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.Collection: Religion
Man, when I'm riding with the helmet on, I'm invisible. And people just deal with me as the guy on the bike... it gives you a chance to read 'em.Collection: Chance
My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn't want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life.Collection: Dad
It's a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself.Collection: Experience
By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You've just got to keep moving. You can't stop.Collection: Nature
I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right.Collection: Design
So much of making movies is about discovery on the day, what you're figuring out. If you know everything going in, then it's not worth doing - it's already done.Collection: Movies
I'm a bit of a loner, you know? I'm more quiet by nature. And coming from, you know, hillbilly country, I'm probably more reserved.Collection: Nature
That's the most important thing to me - that if I'm gonna spend however long it takes to make a movie, give up 14 hours a day for however many weeks or months, then it's very important for me to know that I'm working with people who I respect and enjoy and that we're going for something together.Collection: Respect
I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth.Collection: Truth
I grew up in Oklahoma and Missouri, and I just loved film. My folks would take us to the drive-in on summer nights, and we'd sit on the hood of the car. I just had this profound love for storytelling.Collection: Car
I don't feel restless, I just like to travel.Collection: Travel
A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.Collection: Family
Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.Collection: Success
I was very curious about the world even at a young age, and I don't know at what point I became aware that other cultures believed in different religions, and my question was, 'Well, why don't they get to go to Heaven then?'Collection: Age
Happiness is overrated. There has to be conflict in life.Collection: Happiness
I have this fantasy of my older days, painting or sculpting or making things. I have this fantasy of a bike trip to Chile. I have this fantasy of flying into Morocco. But right now, it's about getting the work done and getting home to family. I have an adventure every morning, getting up.Collection: Morning
You must lose everything in order to gain anything.
When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It's just a first impression. Then there's someone who doesn't catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren't what you would call beautiful sex symbols.
In Missouri, where I come from, we don't talk about what we do - we just do it. If we talk about it, it's seen as bragging.
America is a country founded on guns. It's in our DNA. It's very strange but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I don't feel safe, I don't feel the house is completely safe, if I don't have one hidden somewhere. That's my thinking, right or wrong.
When I received my first paycheck from my now known day job, I spent it on a period Craftsman chair and a Frank Lloyd Wright-wannabe lamp. With my second paycheck, I bought a stereo.
Seeing the world is the best education you can get. You see sorrow, and you also see great spirit and will to survive.
We're so complex; we're mysteries to ourselves; we're difficult to each other. And then storytelling reminds us we're all the same.
Once you get older, you get a little closer to yourself, intimate.
I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven't known life to be any happier.
I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination.
I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we've got Irish heritage where I come from.
It's a violent world we live in. I don't agree with trying to hide that or cover it up.
When I first moved to L.A., I discovered Roy London. I didn't know anything about the arts, the profession; I had no technique, I knew nothing, I'm fresh from Missouri. I sat in on a few classes, and they just felt a little guru-ish and just didn't feel right to me. Until I met Roy.
I had a friend who worked at a hospice, and he said people in their final moments don't discuss their successes, awards or what books they wrote or what they accomplished. They only talk about their loves and their regrets, and I think that's very telling.
I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.
Where I grew up - we started out in Oklahoma and then moved to Missouri - it was considered hubris to talk about yourself. And the downside of that was that ideas rarely got exchanged, or true feelings.
My affliction has been... I can make something or draw something or design something better than I can explain it.
When I was a little kid we moved to Tulsa, then to St. Louis and, by the time I was in kindergarten, we lived in Springfield, Missouri. There I basically grew up.
I loved 'Saturday Night Fever' when I was a kid. I couldn't believe people talked that way. It was just a whole new culture I didn't understand. I snuck into it. It was an R-rated film. So it holds a special place.
When you first get opportunities, suddenly you get surrounded by a lot of people who want to make money off you but also are there to help. But they start telling you so much what you need to be and what you need to do to maintain some idea of career maintenance.
I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony.
When I first got out to Hollywood, they were pushing me for sitcoms, and I didn't really have an interest in them. I wanted to do films and slowly worked that way. And then it became, I guess, this curse of the leading man.
With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.
You want to stake your own claim. You don't want to be called a copycat.
In some ways, I'm still a kid from Missouri and Oklahoma, and I'm trying to find my way.
Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed.
It's those difficult times that inform the next wonderful time, and it's a series of trade-offs, of events, of wins and losses.
Plan B is really a little garage band of three people, and our mandate has been to help get difficult material, that might not otherwise get made, to the screen and to work with directors we respect.
To leave home, it's got to be worth leaving.
I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me.