Brad Pitt Quotes

Every movie I make teaches me something. That's why I keep making them.

I try to make sure the projects that I choose are something that will teach me something new, either about myself or about my art.

When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know.

Being an artist, it's all a journey, and you learn where the subtle patterns lie.

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

I learn something new everyday about myself as an actor, my capabilities, how far I can stretch myself, throw out emotions I never knew I had.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That's what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession.

For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive.

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.

I really think I've found me finally in the music. You know, I had put an album out before, 'Embrace Me,' and it's been seven years since that. So I was discovering who I was. And I still am discovering, but I think now I know a little bit more of who I am. So that's what's pushing me.

As an artist, you keep learning. You draw out different parts of you.

I think - for a period of time, I did think art was there to serve me, but it took me a minute to reset.

I did get a reputation for being choosy and not very easy to be approached, and none of that is true. It is not that I am not approachable, it is just that I am trying to find myself and establish who I am as an artist.

It's hard to say what you learn acting a part. You find bits and pieces of yourself that are inside the character you play. You locate the relatable aspects of that character to your own life. So, in a way, every part you play forces you to discover things about yourself you might not have learned otherwise.

I don't care about the image I have. What matters to me is that with every film, I am growing more and more as an actor, pushing and challenging myself.

My time at Berklee College of Music was probably my greatest period of artistic growth and internalisation.

When I did my first film, I had a fair idea of what I liked and what I didn't while watching an actor in front of the camera. After I finished the film, I thought I had exhausted everything I knew. As I moved from one story, setting and character to another, I discovered something new.

The thing you start noticing as books go by, is that you become aware not only of a shape of a career, but of your themes and interests. You don't want writing tricks where you make the same joke every time, but you do start to notice what consumes your mind, or what drives you.

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

The idea is that what an artist lives through should broaden his notion of what it is possible for a human being to live through, and that new understanding should then get into and expand the work.

By leaving a student to himself he may... be led to undertake matters above his strength, but the trial will at least have this advantage: it will discover to himself his own deficiencies and this discovery alone is a very considerable acquisition.

Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.