Michael Pitt Quotes

I don't have any expectations as an actor, and being rich and famous is not my driving force.

I simply don't want to enter the rat race. I like doing movies because I like acting and not because I want to reach the top.

I'm really an artist. I really do this. I don't need the money. It doesn't matter to me.

You do the work and you want people to see it; but, um while I'm doing the work, the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately, I don't, I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me, when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way.

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.

All any artist can do is please themselves.

I have never been motivated by money in my life. You can't make choices based on what the financial return might be.

The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't be exciting.

I don't care about money. I really don't care. I just want to do what I do.

I don't want money to ever drive my career. I want my career to be driven by what I want to do in art.

I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.

I've never worked to make money. I understand we've got to eat and all that, but I never said I want to be a multimillionaire or a billionaire. To me, that's of no significance. I work to have the accomplishment.

And, we put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.

I want to write. I want to direct. I want to produce - I want to inhabit what I think it means to fully be an artist.

I made some very forgettable films, but I liked them all when I was doing them.

I suppose we'll make money off our album and our singles and stuff, but, like, they were made as we wanted them, exactly with what we had to say, and done exactly how we wanted them, right? And, like, we didn't put them out to make money. We put them out because we wanted to do them, do you know what I mean?

I feel I have been a part of some very wonderful films, and I have had it in mind when I was on the set, every day, that what I am doing has meaning.

It has always been important to me to be a creative artist, not to be a star, not to be rich, not to be famous.

I feel happy that I am being honoured for doing films of my own liking.

I want to be a part of films that elate me and resonate with me.

It's not all about money for me.

I'm just doing all type of music that I like. I'm not so worried about the money like I used to be. I got money now. I don't have to worry about that.

I don't want to, I don't plan my career based on what I want people to believe I'm capable of doing. So I just take things that I think might be good or might be fun to do or might ultimately entertain.

I try not to think about the idea of reaching more and more people, because once you get in that mindset, I think you lose the point of why you're doing it in the first place. Still, the best feeling I ever get is when I finish a song, and it exists, and it didn't exist before, and now it's there, and it makes me feel a certain way.

When I did TV shows and my other movies, I never try to do it for anybody. I just do what I think is good no matter what the genre is.