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If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is, "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is, "Probably because of something you did."
Vague comments make it impossible to figure out what he meant.
Pitt compares Troy with Iraq war
By Ian Youngs
BBC News Online correspondent in Cannes
Troy stars Brad Pitt and Saffron Burrows have drawn parallels between the war in Iraq and the bloodshed between ancient nations in the film.
Pitt, who plays Achilles in the ancient Greek story, said at the film's opening in Cannes: "The themes that Homer had still resonate today."
Burrows described a "terrible sense of deja vu about what the Trojans faced and what we're facing at the moment".
The film, which opens in the US on Friday, has so far had mixed reviews.
Troy, which cost $200m (£115m) to make, is based on Homer's Iliad and also stars Lord of the Rings' Orlando Bloom, Hulk star Eric Bana and British stars Julie Christie, Brian Cox and Peter O'Toole.
The film was famously forced to move locations from Morocco to Mexico when film studio Warners decided Morocco was too dangerous when the Iraq war broke out.
Pitt added that "mistakes and successes" from history were "there for us to learn from or ignore".
"You cannot watch a historic story without being informed about what we're going through now," he said.
"We're all after the same thing - this greater idea of common humanity and how do we get past these hatreds and resentments that have built between us."
Burrows, who plays Andromache, wife of Troy's Prince Hector, said conflict between countries was "an eternal problem and it is entirely pertinent today".
And the warmongering kings in the film, particularly brothers Agamemnon and Menelaus were reminiscent of "a fraternity in the world at the moment".
Pitt also spoke of themes running through Hollywood, and said it was currently going through a phase of making grand historical tales.
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