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Michael Pitt Quotes
«There are two kinds of directors: There's the kind where two plus two equals four, and you have to help them figure it out. And then there's the kind that throws you in a room, locks the door, sets the house on fire and films it.»
Author: Michael Pitt
«You know, people want someone to tell them the answer, ... They want a friend, or a teacher, or a parent - but above all I guess they just want to know. And the truth is you can't tell them, and that's a hard thing to deal with. And it's easy to get wrapped up in the idea that this person knows - that he will tell me what I need to know, what I need to live - because he means a lot to me.»
Author: Michael Pitt
«Movie stars get paid these ridiculous amounts of money - I don't know if they deserve it,»
Author: Michael Pitt
«Well, I played a junkie. People have said to me: 'My God, your walk in the movie is just like Kurt's.' But I was just trying to walk like a junkie.»
Author: Michael Pitt
«[Last Days is, loosely, about Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of the rock group Nirvana.] I had a house in the middle of the woods, ... I stayed alone the whole time, and I tried always to be battling with the things I thought the character was battling with - seclusion, drug addiction, severe chronic depression and suicidal tendencies.»
Author: Michael Pitt
«I see why people think it is, and sometimes I do. And sometimes I don't think it's selfish. I'm probably an atheist, though I was raised a Catholic - and that whole religion is based on the first suicide, in many ways.»
Author: Michael Pitt
«I think Gus hopes that you look at a human being, not Kurt Cobain, ... You don't get hung up on the rock `n' roll fantasy, whatever fantasy the audience wants to have about Kurt Cobain as a rock star or rock icon. After watching the film, I thought, strangely, that this had more respect for him.»
Author: Michael Pitt
«It was a dream, ... There's a sense that even when the movie is scripted, a lot of the best things that happen are accidents. It's an environment set up where the accidents can flow.»
Author: Michael Pitt
«Because I look up to Kurt and River Phoenix, I've been forewarned, and a lot of the decisions I've made in my career are to counteract my fame.»
Author: Michael Pitt
«I didn't think that it was going to stay in the film, and then I think that it was Thurston Moore's suggestion that it stay in,»
Author: Michael Pitt