Brad Pitt: I've "Never" Googled myself

Brad Pitt: I've "Never" Googled myself

The regular bloggers can hate on Brad Pitt all they want: He'll likely never read about it.

When asked during Newsweek's 13th annual Oscar Roundtable if he's ever "googled" himself, the Oscar nominee, 45, replied, "Dear God. No. Never. First of all, I don't really know how to operate a computer." (He isn't completely tech illiterate: "I have a BlackBerry," he says.)

"This publicity machine is out of control," Pitt says of the downside of releasing a film. "It's everything we didn't sign up for. There's this whole other entity that you get sucked into. You have to go and sell your wares.

"It's something I never made my peace with," says the actor, who volunteered to shoot Angelina Jolie apparently breastfeeding in W magazine around the time Benjamin Button was released. "Somehow you're not supporting your film if you don't get out on a show and talk about your personal life. It has nothing to do with why I do this."

Brad Pitt says he is glad he isn't trying to launch his career these days.

"I feel for the people who are just getting into the business," he says. "It sets the wrong focus."

Brad Pitt says he is thankful that he is at a certain point in his career.

"I have nothing to prove anymore," Pitt says. "The only thing that's worth anything is when you explore something that's interesting. I did a film a couple years ago, The Assassination of Jesse James, and it's on the books as a failure. I loved that movie, I had such a great experience.

"My point is, I am absolutely free to follow the things that interest me," the actor adds. "I believe if it interests me, there will be a few other people interested as well. To me it comes down to discovery."