Brad Pitt

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. ”

My life has been about big changes. ”

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

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

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

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

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'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. ”

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. ”