Brad Pitt On Directing: 'Hell No'

Brad Pitt was on hand at Saturday night's Producer's Guild Awards, in part to support his partner Angelina Jolie, who was presented with the Stanley Kramer Award for her directorial debut, "In the Land of Blood and Honey." Directing has been a successful new venture for Jolie, but don't expect Pitt to follow in her foot steps behind the camera.

"Hell no," Pitt responded when asked on the red carpet if he had any interest in directing his own film, quite firm in his stance. "Just not interested."

The answer sets him apart from his best friends in Hollywood. George Clooney has become a successful director with four films to his name, including this year's critical hit "The Ides of March," while Ben Affleck has helmed two films and is working on his third, "Argo." Matt Damon has written a number of films -- he earned an Oscar with Affleck for "Good Will Hunting" -- and was supposed to make his directorial debut on a film he co-wrote with John Krasinski; he has since pulled out due to schedule conflicts, giving the job to Gus Van Sant.

Still, Pitt is far more than just an actor. He recently became the 5000th member of the Producer's Guild, and it was well deserved. He produced "Moneyball," working for years to make it happen, and also pulled the strings on "The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford." Through his producing shingle Plan B Entertainment, he's also producing the zombie film "World War Z" and "Cogan's Trade," both of which he stars in.

Pitt has also had his name on a number of hits in which he did not act. He earned a Golden Globe for co-producing "The Departed," though he was ruled ineligible for the Oscar that the film eventually won. His company has backed Jolie's "A Mighty Heart"; Johnny Depp's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"; "The Time Traveler's Wife"; and "Eat Pray Love."

While he has walked back those pesky rumors of a retirement from acting at 50-years-old, clearly, Pitt will be in Hollywood for the long haul.

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Comments

[squiddypie8]

03:46 PM on 02/14/2012

Man that f used to be soooooo hot!

[Brown Jackie]

06:30 PM on 02/08/2012

In other words..."I can't tell people what to do...I only do what Angie tells me I can do...besides, directing takes talent....
xoxoxox
GC

[Bailey Reynolds]

10:07 PM on 01/24/2012

Pitt got robbed not winning the Best Supporting Oscar for his role in "Legends of the Fall." The scene where Tristan runs to his just-killed little brother on the battlefield ripped my heart out every time I've seen it. That was the most powerful performance of his career, by far.

[missmcgillicuddy]

08:48 AM on 01/24/2012

2011 Oscar nominee for best actor, Moneyball.

[crabbyguy75]

04:08 AM on 01/24/2012

and we say Thank You!

[canpete]

09:06 PM on 01/23/2012

i can see this, he can barely act............

[finitz]

06:07 PM on 01/23/2012

...some day....years from now....Angelina will wake up one morning and think....why did I like this looser ?

[PoliticalJunkie65]

07:29 PM on 01/23/2012

Because he is hot and probably makes love like a god?

[ocenbrz]

06:25 AM on 01/25/2012

Because he is a hands on father. I thought that was obvious? She has said this many times. At this point I feel that they really love each other. They really have built the life they both dreamed of. For Angie especially, to see her own children able to grow up with their father? Something she never had. Priceless. She couldn't do the things that she does without his support and he is there. I mean we have the pictures, to support her work and to keep their family together. That is what makes her happy and I can see they are happy being together. I wish that for everyone who wants that type of life.

[finitz]

05:36 PM on 01/25/2012

hollywood is fantacy.....so i don't hold my breathe when actors and actresses play the roles of being married.....head lines two years from now will probably shock you...and i will yawn ....

[logic123]

05:20 PM on 01/23/2012

I like Brad in general but every time I hear him talk in interviews I can't help but get the feeling he just smoked a jo _int in the limo.

[PoliticalJunkie65]

07:29 PM on 01/23/2012

And there is nothing wrong with that.

Heck, we're about to make it legal here.

[canpete]

09:07 PM on 01/23/2012

that can only negatively affect the inbreeding that already goes on........

[logic123]

09:28 AM on 01/24/2012

Agreed! It was just an observation.

[JJovana]

11:56 AM on 01/23/2012

Some of you on here saying he's a "bad actor" are obviously blinded by his extremely exposed personal life and overal physical persona, ignoring the fact he has proven his acting worth times over in films that are extremely underrated. Watch Assasination of Jesse James, Tree of Life, Moneyball, Fight Club, 12 Monkeys, Se7en and dare to tell me he's a "bad actor". He's the most underrated talent in Hollywood. I hope he gets nominated for Tree of Life.

[2B]

01:00 PM on 01/23/2012

Not blinded by his public persona; I can separate the person on the cover of a fan magazine from the actor. I've seen BP's films, don't think I've missed any. He does better in some than others, but astonishingly, he does not improve. It's good he said no to directing as I can't imagine how someone who cannot act could direct. There are many good actors right now, BP is not one of them. Watch Inglorious Basterds, for example, it's full of great writing; BP had awesome material to work with. Now "ask yourself this," can you recall a single line he spoke? If a real actor had spoken those great lines, we would be saying them all the time, they would have entered popular culture. Were it not for the great writing, and the talent of Kruger and Waltz, he would have ruined that movie. And that's just one example.

[mukTech]

04:15 AM on 01/24/2012

"I can't imagine how someone who cannot act could direct"
Are you saying that every good director out there knows how to act? It's like saying "every basketball coach must know how to play the game of basketball"?

Need I say more? LOLs

[HomerJFong]

01:24 PM on 01/24/2012

Loved him in 12 Monkeys! THE EYES! (though that may have been camera trickery...)

[Francois Bergeron]

06:29 AM on 02/03/2012

That was great.

[HalfBakedSushi]

11:11 AM on 01/23/2012

I hate autoplay. Seriously. Give me the choice of if and when I want to watch the video.

[stringer]

11:56 PM on 01/23/2012

Thank you. It's weird when I start reading an article at the top and all of a sudden I hear this voice, have to scroll down and see the video playing. It makes me like the video less, the person in it less and ensures that I'm then going to click back not finish the article and definitely not listen to the video.

It should at least be our choice to click play instead of having the thing go on its own.

[Wookiee1972]

09:38 AM on 01/23/2012

Smart guy. Not every actor has to be a director.

[IglooUsher]

08:56 AM on 01/23/2012

I wish Brad Pitt would take some acting lessons!

[J Osteen]

01:36 PM on 01/23/2012

I wish he'd wash that stiff, smelly mop of hair !

[chicamorena]

11:10 PM on 01/23/2012

I wish you'd grow another brain cell and double the number you already have.

[goncrazi]

09:40 PM on 02/13/2012

J Osteen - why were you smelling Brad Pitt's hair?

[missmcgillicuddy]

08:47 AM on 01/24/2012

Ha ha... he was just nominated for a best actor oscar for Moneyball...

[IglooUsher]

05:07 PM on 01/24/2012

There's no accounting for some people's taste or judgement. Brad Pitt has NO talent. And he's a dirtball.

[94613]

08:54 AM on 01/23/2012

Should Anyone Care ? The Relevancy of Him in a Director role has been preceded by the flops she has lobbed onto the stage...

[erehwon2]

10:54 AM on 01/23/2012

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[Quai DOrsay]

11:25 AM on 01/23/2012

SPAM ALERT

[Gigantorman]

08:08 AM on 01/23/2012

Wish he would say "hell no" to acting.