Pitt 'Embarrassed' by his performance in this film, WTF??!

IMDB News has recently (today) reported the following: http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2007-10-26/

Brad Pitt was so embarrassed by his performance in movies Cutting Class, Meet Joe Black and Seven Years In Tibet, he's apologized to film critics. He admits some of his roles in the late 1980s and 1990s were not his strongest - and agrees with movie critics who claim his earlier work is not his best. But Pitt insists the experience has made him a much better actor. He says, "I believe I'm quite capable and we, as people, can learn to do anything, and that's proof of it! And my education is on film, on record! Now I can take on anything that comes my way and find truth in it an do a pretty good job."
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Brad Pitt would not be the first actor to bag on their own work. Some people might take the fact that an actor bags on their own work as a very authoritative statement and not bother seeing such a film. If the actor doesn't like their own film, why should anyone else bother? But I think such need not always be the case, and this movie is one very good example. And artist is always critical of their own work, and rightly so. But just because they see things they don't like about their own performance or something else about a film they are in, does not mean that others will certainly see the same things for the same reasons. Actors grow in their acting. That's a good thing. But it does not necessarily mean that what ends up on the screen in their early career is going to be trash to others that see it.

Seven Years in Tibet is a fine film, and Pitt did a decent enough job in it. It's been a while since I've seen the film, but I don't really remember anything that stuck out as really bad to me about his acting, or anything to be embarrassed by. For anyone interested in the subject matter, I highly recommend the film.