Brad Pitt Gets Un-"Button"ed For 'W' Magazine

Brad Pitt gets un-"Button"ed in next month's W magazine, their annual A-list issue. Read what the 45-year-old actor has to say about the two women he's been most famously connected with: Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie.

On his current relationship with ex-wife Jennifer Aniston:

"We still check in with each other. She was a big part of my life, and me hers. I don't see how there cannot be [that]. That's life, man. That's life."

On Aniston's recent comment that it was "uncool" for Angelina Jolie to openly state that she and Brad Pitt fell in love on the set of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith":

"Listen, man, Jen is a sweetheart. I think she got dragged into that one, and then there's a second round to all of that Angie versus Jen. It's so created."

On the public's misinterpretation of his and Jolie's "affair":

"What people don't understand is that we filmed [Mr. & Mrs. Smith] for a year. We were still filming after Jen and I split up. Even then it doesn't mean that there was some kind of dastardly affair. There wasn't. I'm very proud of the way that it was handled. It was respectful. [The film] will mean something to our kids. It will, that's all."

On photographing Jolie for W magazine's November 2008 photo spread:

"We have fun working together; these things bring you closer. And let me tell you, it's really sexy to see your loved one through the lens. I went much further [than the shot of Jolie breast-feeding]. I didn't show those."

On the reason he and Jolie do not have a publicist:

"A publicist isn't going to know as much as I'm going to know about what we want to do. It just becomes more people to talk to. Man, we've got six kids. We don't have time for that. We've got to streamline. I make my own decisions for myself anyway. I've never seen a publicist that could protect me from things, protect anyone from what's going on out there."

On never slowing down:

"By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You've just got to keep moving. You can't stop."

On how family life has changed him:

"I quit smoking. That was the only thing that got me to quit. That was it. Done."

On how his own mortality frightens him:

"I'm scared to death of death."

Click here to read Brad's complete interview, including his thoughts on the paparazzi and Barack Obama. Or, pick up next month's A-list issue of W magazine on newsstands.