Brad Pitt

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. ”

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

I would say that the directors that I've liked the most are all curious in nature - curious thinkers. They're all big questioners, I would say, first and foremost. ”

I've been no stranger to change. ”

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. ”

Seeing the world is the best education you can get. You see sorrow, and you also see great spirit and will to survive. ”

My training is documented on film. ”

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. ”

What's valuable to me has become clearer as I've got older. To me, it's about the value of your time and your day and the value of the people you spend it with. ”

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. ”