Angelina on Her Family

Tabloid fav and shutterbug queen, Angelina Jolie opens up to Christiane Amanpour with ABC news this week about her directorial debut, In the Land of Blood and Honey, home schooling her kids, the way she views the world, and her life with Brad and the kids. UPDATE: Check out why Angelina might be having a bad day... (Hint: It's a law suit)

It's official: Angelina's getting sued for copyright infringement. Croatian journalist James Braddock, claims his book, The Soul Shattering, inspired Angie's producer before Angie even jumped on the project. I'm sure there will be more to come.

I personally am not too into the movie one way or another, but it's interesting to see how she views herself after hearing constantly about how the world views her. Nice to see her come out of hiding for some press!
Here's what she had to say:

Of Home Schooling:
"I'm being very careful with their schooling, we're home-schooling especially when it comes to history, to make sure it's not one country's point of view of their country because it has to be very balanced and they have to learn about their country so they can form their own conclusions."

Of Adoption and Culture:
"I look at them and think what their birth parents must have gone through, what their birth grandparents would have done through, and so I feel connected to it. It's a gift when you adopt a child from another country. This whole country enters your home."

About her Celebrity:
"It's so hard with family in this business so we take turns working, so whenever one of us works, the other makes sure they're there for the kids so we never have to split up the family. If it's over five days, everybody's got to move in a big traveling mass."

About the Death Penalty:
"I won't say whose side anyone is on, but it's the one, the thing nobody brings up at dinner because nobody wants us to go off on each other. But it's fun. It's a fun debate, you know? It's a good-- you want to be able to have -- to respect each other's views and to not be exactly-- we're not identical. We have-- we have strong views."

About Marriage to Brad:
"The kids asked me the other day and I asked them if it was just because they wanted to have a 'big cake. They see movies that have the people getting married in the movies or somebody's, you know, the happily ever after. Shrek and Fiona are married. We've explained to them that our commitment when we decided to start a family was the greatest commitment you could possibly have. Once you have six children, you're…you're committed."

About the Future:
"I don't feel needed in a position of being an actor. I feel like I'm needed at home as a mom, and I'm hoping that I'll find other things. I'd love to be able to write or direct or work on and produce more projects about issues dealing with situations that I feel passionate about."