Brad Pitt Quotes

I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.

Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.

If a film is good, and I'm sort of able to sit there and absorb myself within that world. And get lost. That is a pretty powerful tool. And there's not many paintings out there, that make me want to stare at it for hours at a time, and wonder where I am!

The music's job is to get the audience so involved that they forget how the movie turns out.

A movie is like a person. Either you trust it or you don't.

If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.

I like it when I go into a cinema and I'm not aware that I'm there; I'm totally involved in the film for two hours.

If you can walk into a set and feel the reality of it, then immediately you're not having to work to bring yourself into the character.

When I watch a movie, I don't make a sound or move. The more I'm into the movie, the more bored I look.

I know that when I watch TV, I want to be transformed and transported, not just by the characters that I grow to love over the hours and seasons of watching but also the world that it plants me into.

When you go to the theater, if you're really involved in the play, you don't think about it - you're in it.

I've watched films and even forgotten I'm in them.

When you see 'Lord of the Rings,' you want to feel like you've been dropped into it and that you're part of it. You don't want to be aware of how it's being done; you just want it to feel really seamless.

People who can pull you in and take you on a journey, as opposed to simply adding flash. Again, that feels very clinical, and I don't respond to that the way I used to.

I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen.

When you watch a movie, you don't want to feel like a machine made it. You want to feel a soul.

I get bored at the theatre a lot because I notice that there's not always a connection between the actors. They may be technically proficient, but they're not surprising each other. I'm thrilled by actors who make choices that are surprising.

I love going to movies. It's just big, it takes you away, you can escape into it.

I want more unpredictability. I want more realism. I think the fans would appreciate that, and that's what I've brought since day one.

I think that's the main thing - when people watch TV and they can see that you're truly passionate about what you do, they can see it. They know it. And that's what they're drawn to.

It's one of the things that movies do offer you, despite all of their hardships - they offer you moments of transcendence.

Good cinema is what we can believe and bad cinema is what we can't believe. What you see and believe in is very much what I'm interested in.

I do believe that people go to the movies - for one reason or another - they go to the movies to have an experience.

When I read, I want to be fully transported to another place. I want to feel things, smell things.

When I was young I used to sit in the cinema thinking wouldn't it be great if you could have a film in which the characters were like real people instead of being like actors.