Michael Pitt Quotes

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.

Michael Pitt

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• Audience
• Difficult
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• Cry
• Portions
• Clockwork

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• I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.

  

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• Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

  

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• 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.

  

  Michael Pitt
  • Film
  • Emotional
  • Audience