OPRAH: Favortie book or Author? BRAD: Cormac McCarthy

"I'm really into architecture, structure and design. Give me anything and I'll design it. I'm a bit nutty with it." Pitt added: "I've got a few men I respect very much and one would be Frank Gehry. He said to me, 'If you know where it's going, it's not worth doing.' That's become like a mantra for me. That's the life of the artist."

He's the fastest man on a thousand cc's. This guy is a magician. He's mesmerizing. He probably weighs a buck fifty, and he's the fastest man on two wheels. It's speed, but it's also balance: These are the guys who are laying the bikes on their sides and not going over. These are the guys who are riding on their knees and elbows. It's pure ballet, on the most powerful motorcycles in the world. Rossi has won the title for the last four years. He doesn't get rattled. He has a sort of innate sense of balance that's beyond mortal man. He's like Lance Armstrong on a motorcycle. Just poetry to watch.

You take De Niro—he does New York better than. . .he is New York. It’s what he knows. So it occurred to me to go investigate some of the things that I knew. Certainly this last half a decade I’ve been very aware of that, more conscious of who I am, how I fit in the thing as opposed to trying to emulate someone else. Though I try to emulate De Niro all the time, who is someone I could never be.