Brad Pitt

I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.

I look and there's our boy from Vietnam and our daughter from Ethiopia, and our girl was born in Namibia, and our son is from Cambodia, and they're brothers and sisters, man. They're brothers and sisters and it's a sight for elation.

I'm much more experienced now, so I can find films that are interesting quicker and cut out the films that don't really matter. It means more to me now because my kids are going to see them, and I want them to be proud.

My life has been about big changes.

I don't think I was all that late in becoming a father.

I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.

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.

You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man.

My happiest moment is the day they call wrap and I'm free. I'm not looking back.

I was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma.

I had a very supportive family environment that gave me room to explore and discover things about myself.

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.

I'm 48 now and whatever I get music-wise, I get from my kids and that's it. I don't think I'll ever be hip again!

Indian cinema seems to be growing very well at its own pace.

I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there.

You never know when I might decide to work in a Bollywood film and do one of those dance numbers with the whole crew in the backdrop.

Given a chance, I would like to work with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan because she's a versatile actor.

I always liked film as a teaching tool - a way of getting exposed to ideas that had never been presented to me. It just wasn't on the list of career options where I grew up.

I always thought that if I wanted to do a family, I wanted to do it big. I wanted there to be chaos in the house.

I find all of my performances come down to mathematics in a sense - how do you approach the problem of this character? Sometimes I crack that problem, sometimes I don't.

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.

I think L.A. is impossible. There's just too much media focus. You can't live a normal life.

I grew up on certain movies, particular movies that said something to me as a kid from Missouri, movies that showed me places I'd yet traveled, or different cultures, or explained something, or said something in a better way than I could ever say. I wanted to find the movies like that.

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'm satisfied with making true choices and finding the woman I love, Angie, and building a family that I love so much.

One of the greatest, smartest things I ever did was give my kids Angie as their mom. She is such a great mom. Oh, man, I'm so happy to have her.

How many stories have you read that aren't true, stories about me and Angie being married or fighting or splitting up? And when we don't split up, there's a whole new round that we've made up and we're back together again!

The best moments can't be preconceived. I've spent a lot of time in editing rooms, and a scene can be technically perfect, with perfect delivery and facial expression and timing, and you remember all your lines, and it is dead.

My kids are just waiting for me at home. I'm their father. They're wondering, 'When's Daddy coming home?'

When I first started, they were trying to get me into sitcoms - I think because I had that kind of Wonder Bread look and my hair always went into place. I kept saying, 'I'm not good at sitcoms. I don't know how to do that.'

When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn't know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears.

I'd say that 'Tree of Life' is not a Christian so much as a spiritual film.

If I'm going to work, I want to work with my wife.

There are no Hallmark cards that define the next chapter, or the value of a history together.

I always knew I was going somewhere - going out. I just knew. I just knew. I just knew there were a lot more points of view out there.

My training is documented on film.

I'm sure they're saddened by me, and I get frustrated with them. But I love them, and at the end of the day if they need me or if they need anything, I'm there for them. Family.

At the end of the day, we get to be parents, greeting our lovely, crazy children and talking about their day, making sure they brush their teeth, so all the tension from our day is tabled... until the next.

I'm actually very snobbish about directors. I have to say 'no' all the time. 'No' is the most powerful word in our business. You've got to protect yourself.

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.

I've been no stranger to change.

Once you get older, you get a little closer to yourself, intimate.

You want to stake your own claim. You don't want to be called a copycat.

My affliction has been... I can make something or draw something or design something better than I can explain it.

In some ways, I'm still a kid from Missouri and Oklahoma, and I'm trying to find my way.

I just don't like the separatism that comes from religion, and, without fail, the need to put your beliefs on someone else. When you start telling someone else how to live, you should check yourself, man.

I was so intent on trying to find a movie about an interesting life, but I wasn't living an interesting life myself.

I feel like I have to share whatever I can. You're culpable if you don't act.

I guess I just don't see America as separate from Vietnam or Ethiopia. This mentality of 'our team's better than yours' - it's a high school idea. My kids don't see those dividing lines, and I don't want to either.

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.