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Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt trade views on filmmaking
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Actress Angelina Jolie smiles with her partner Brad Pitt as they arrive at the 23rd annual Producers Guild Awards in Beverly Hills, California, January 21, 2012. REUTERS/Fred Prouser
Actress Angelina Jolie smiles with her partner Brad Pitt as they arrive at the 23rd annual Producers Guild Awards in Beverly Hills, California, January 21, 2012. REUTERS/Fred Prouser

They’re arguably Hollywood’s highest-profile couple, so it’s only natural that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie would privately discuss the art and business of filmmaking. According to Pitt, they don’t always agree.

Speaking with Reuters at Saturday’s Producers Guild Awards in Beverly Hills, Pitt said that he and Jolie, who are each busy on both sides of the camera as well as raising six children together, will talk shop at the end of a long day.

“Usually we argue shop every now and then,” Pitt said, noting that they tend to differ in their approach. “She’s much more decisive, she’s much more quick. I’ve got to see everything. I’ve got to shop the entire eBay to know exactly what I want and what I need.”

When he’s stumped, Pitt said, “I’ll always go to her and talk it out.”

Jolie, who received the guild’s Stanley Kramer Award for her directorial debut, “In the Land of Blood and Honey,” said Pitt’s role as a producer calls for different skills. He produced and starred in “Moneyball,” one of the 10 films nominated for the Producers Guild’s top prize.

“I had to direct, I think it’s different. I think he’d execute properly if he was the director,” Jolie said. “But I do like to think of myself as decisive, so I’ll take that.”

Regarding her first work in the director’s chair, a love story set amid the harrowing destruction of the Bosnian War, Jolie said her intention “wasn’t to make a political statement against anybody. It was simply to say, ‘We must talk about what happened, we must try to learn from what happened, we must try to see humanity on all sides,’ and if we can, then we can start to move forward.”

On the other hand, Jolie admitted that she was “fascinated” by a political matter somewhat closer to home: the Republican presidential race.

“There’s that part of us that’s wanting to learn about what’s going on, and wanting to see who could possibly be the next president, and taking that very seriously, which it is. And then there’s that other part of it that is this strange television ... these characters that we’re watching. So you try to kind of separate that,” Jolie said, adding “it goes into the bizarre sometimes.”

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