Michael Pitt Quotes

"[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."
-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."
-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."
-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."
-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."
-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."
-Michael Pitt

"Movie stars get paid these ridiculous amounts of money - I don't know if they deserve it."
-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."
-Michael Pitt