The problem, he says, was that he was looking for inspiration in all the wrong places. "I spent years f--king off," Pitt admits. "But then I got burnt out and felt that I was wasting my opportunity."
At that point -- "about a decade ago," which would have been when he was still married to ex-wife Jennifer Aniston -- he made a "conscious change" in his life. "It was an epiphany -- a decision not to squander my opportunities," he explains. "It was a feeling of, 'Get up.' Because otherwise, what's the point?