Angelina Jolie

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Angelina Jolie’s success in Hollywood means she doesn’t need a backup plan. But she had one once: to turn wake director.

“It sounds like this really strange, eccentric, dark thing to do but in fact we mislaid my grandfather and was really dissapoint with his funeral,” she said during an talk on 60 Minutes Sunday night. “How somebody passes and how family deals with this flitting and what genocide is should be addressed in a opposite way. If this whole behaving thing didn’t work out that was going to be my path.”

But it did work out, and now the Oscar leader is compelling her directorial debut, In the Land of Blood and Honey, which is set to be expelled in the U.S. on Dec. 23.

In her talk with CBS’s Bob Simon on 60 Minutes, Jolie, 36, spoke about several topics, including her dark past. Here are the formerly secret highlights:

• Always in Tabloids: Simon asked Jolie what people who only know her from publication covers are missing. “Me,” she said. “I don’t see those things. we don’t know who they are but we assume they’re not me. They’re not who we am. They’re not what we spend my day caring about. we find them utterly shoal and often utterly wrong.”

• Working Mom: “We never work at the same time,” Jolie said of how she and Brad Pitt lift their 6 children. She also said she prefers “when I’m home with the kids” and that sharpened cinema full time “would be easier.”

• Looking Up to Mom: “My mom was a full-time mother. She didn’t have most of her own career, her own life, her own practice … all was for her children,” Jolie said of her mom, Marcheline Bertrand, as she choked up. “I will never be as good a mom as she was. She was just beauty incarnate. She was the most generous, amatory – she’s improved than me.”

• Becoming a Director: “I still think it’s crazy … we think I’d be terrible with a comedy,” she says of rebellious the tough topics in her film, a love story set during the Bosnian War in 1992. “Everything was something to be clever about and sensitive.”

“I am shaken that people are not going to know it,” she said, yet she’s not disturbed about being concerned with a film that has someone else as the star. “I cite directing. we love carrying the spotlight on someone else … It’s good for all of that not to matter.”

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