Brad Pitt might be about to retire from acting – at least he has hinted subtly that he would like to take on a bigger role behind the camera in the future and says it’s something that he would “rather” because a producer can really make the story what it is and breathe life into it with a good team, which is something he loves to do:
“I’d rather be behind the camera. As a producer, obviously, you’re part of a team that brings the story to the screen. It wouldn’t be there if you didn’t champion it or if you and a group of people weren’t championing it. I like that.”
Speaking on selecting roles, Brad says that at the moment he is finishing up a few jobs, and once he’s done, he’ll have a think about the direction he wants to go in next. He doesn’t enjoying working all of the time, and when he does work, he always likes to do something new because when he does something similar and repetitive, he feels that he ends up killing it in the end:
“You know, right now, this is like a clean-up-the-loose-ends-and-tidy-up-the-place kind of year, which I also look at as a refill kind of year. I’m not good at going back-to-back-to-back-to-back with movies, and it’s just now that I’m starting to get my bearings again and a flavor for what’s next. But it can’t be something repetitive that I’ve done before. I’m bored to death by that, and when I attempt things like that, it never works–I end up hurting the movie. So it’s just about discovery now and finding something new that’s interesting to me.”
