I’m not a big proponent of happiness. I think it’s highly overrated. I think misery is underrated. There’s so much value in that. You can’t have one without the other.
BRAD PITTSo 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. I’m interested in finding people who I think have a voice – and a very specific voice.
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I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.
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I haven’t known life to be any happier.
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I could really try new things. That was satanism, it works really well, I made a pact.
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You don’t really get to choose who you fall in love with. Love chooses you.
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My happiest moment is the day they call wrap and I’m free. I’m not looking back.
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Each misstep leads to the next correct step.
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I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.
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Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I’ll trade wisdom for youth any day.
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Most of the time is with the family. Most of the time, is all the time. When we work it’s a very intensive chunk of time. We work for 12 hours a day, 14 hours a day is common. And we’ll do that for a few months and then we get to relax a little bit.
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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.
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Fatherhood is the best thing I ever did. It changes your perspective. You can write a book, you can make a movie, you can paint a painting, but having kids is really the most extraordinary thing I have taken on.
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Yeah. And it was too much of what you shouldn’t be doing instead of what you should be doing. I get enraged when people start telling other people how to live their lives. It drives me mental.
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We’re consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession.
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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.
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Any love involves loss, and that’s the risk you take. And the greater the love, the greater the loss. I certainly feel that now with the woman I’m with, and the children that I have. But whatever the course may be, this time together is extraordinary.
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Without pain and suffering, we would be nothing
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I don’t want to die without scars.
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Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I’ll trade wisdom for youth any day.
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I’m probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don’t think anyone really knows. You’ll either find out or not when you get there, until then there’s no point thinking about it.
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By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You’ve just got to keep moving. You can’t stop.
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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.
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I embrace the messiness of life. I find it so beautiful actually.
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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… To leave home, it’s got to be worth leaving. It’s got to be worth it.
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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.
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The things you own end up owning you.
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Crime is just unvarnished capitalism, after all.
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