TIFF: Brad Pitt on Winning in an Unfair Game

The Hollywood actor told a Toronto International Film Festival presser for Moneyball that renegade digital filmmakers will increasingly figure in a movie business long dominated by the studio system.

TORONTO — Can the art of winning an unfair game be applied to Hollywood?

Moneyball star Brad Pitt thinks so.

“Because we’ve been doing something the same way, for so long, does that mean it’s alright for today. We can’t stop questioning the context of how decisions are made at the time,” the star of Bennet Miller’s baseball movie told a Toronto International Film Festival press conference Friday.

“Why, if we’re inventing the automobile today, would it run on a finite resource that we need to go to war for… It’s this type of questioning I feel inspired by,” Pitt, who plays Oakland Athletics’ general manager Billy Beane in the Sony Pictures Entertainment pic, added.

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