Michael Pitt
Michael Pitt
Michael Carmen Pittis an American actor, model and musician. Pitt is known in film for his roles in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers, Gus Van Sant's Last Days, Michael Haneke's Funny Games and M. Night Shyamalan's The Village, and in television for his roles as Jimmy Darmody in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire and Mason Verger in season two of the NBC series Hannibal...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth10 April 1981
CityWest Orange, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
I don't really even know what Twitter is. I know that might sound wierd to some people. I don't use social media. I make music, so I use social media...it's more helpful for me when I'm making music than as an actor.
If I'm able to catch the screening, there's a point in the film where, like clockwork, a portion of the audience gets really emotional and begins to cry. And that's very difficult to make happen.
I've noticed that sometimes when you keep things a little smaller, it's easier to focus on the creative aspects of what you're doing.
I remember when I was a kid looking at different types of film and really examining the grains of them. I remember even looking at the ink streaks.
Anything that you [as an actor] can change about yourself for a part is helpful.
I think my audience is smart. If there's a way to be entertained and get things out - real things, not stupid moral crap - that's the best.
I'm really, really blessed. Not only am I blessed to have found that I love making films, but I'm also insanely blessed to be able to do it. I have to remind myself that when I'm complaining.
I'm not really equipped to do anything else but making movies. In every other aspect of my life I'm a total failure.
If a religious person says "No, no, no" and they won't listen to science, it makes me think that they don't have faith in their own religion.
Now is a very interesting time because of the digital cameras, and the fact that you can edit anywhere. It's a great time to be a filmmaker, is a great time to be starting off.
I'm always trying to work on scripts. I'm pretty selective. Sometimes maybe too much because I'm broke .
'Dawson's Creek' was my introduction to the industry. It put some money in my pocket and it put me in the position I wanted to be in, where I could audition for projects that I wanted to be a part of. I didn't find it creatively fulfilling in any way though.
'Boardwalk' begins literally on the first day of Prohibition, which I think was a wonderful way to start - to have the story kind of come out of this massive historical phenomenon. And the more I researched the '20s, the more I discovered just how interesting it was.
'Boardwalk' has kind of exposed me to a different demographic. And it upped my skills in terms of the speed with which I can prep a scene, and I'm excited to apply that.