Brad Pitt

I get enraged when people start telling other people how to live their lives.

I think someone's conversation, whether in e-mail or in person, should be private.

I certainly feel injustice. I'm no foreigner to that, whether it's real or perceived.

Certainly the attrition rate of Hollywood couples looms large.

I've worked with some really great directors, and I'm really choosy about them because they're telling the story at the end of the day.

I tell all the young guys, don't make choices because somebody else is telling you it's good from a career-maintenance perspective.

Family - and certainly kids and a stable relationship - is something bigger than yourself. They need you to sit down with them, be there for them when they wake up in the middle of the night.

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.

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.

It might be a very human thing across the board, but we, in America, love a story - we need a story to get involved in. But then everything becomes more about how the story protects a certain perception as we pick sides.

The Internet has done a wonderful thing for us. But democracy doesn't work unless people are well informed, and I don't know that we are. People just don't have the time.

I grew up on 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. It was less about a career than finding the films I wanted to see.

You can't be different for different's sake, and this doesn't always work, but you have to separate yourself from the normal read. Of course, it has to be truthful. If it's not truthful, don't waste your time.

I am obsessively bent on quality - to an unhealthy degree.

I'm an Obama supporter, no question. But it doesn't mean there's nothing to learn from the other side.

We sometimes let ourselves be rated too much by others - we put so much emphasis on a paycheck or what a magazine says.

I didn't realize how interesting the place I come from is until I left home and saw how other cultures handled things differently.

I die really well, by the way. It's one of my strong points. I just take a bullet well.

I see religion more as a truck stop on your way to figuring out who you are.

I start asking a lot of questions about my own life, and it's not necessarily fun, but it's a good exercise.

I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth.

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.

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.

By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You've just got to keep moving. You can't stop.

Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it's hard to make your peace with.

Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.

Happiness is overrated. There has to be conflict in life.