Angelina Jolie Covers Vanity Fair, October 2011

Angelina Jolie is getting ready for the premiere of “In the Land of Blood and Honey,” which she wrote and directed and which should arrive in theaters in December 2011. To promote it, she’s just landed on the cover of the October issue of Vanity Fair.

In the interview with VF, Jolie first sets the record straight: there are no plans for a secret wedding, she is not pregnant and no, she had no plans to adopt another baby right now.

Having set the record straight on these aspects of her personal life, Jolie get talking about her new project, which will also mark her debut as a director.

For starters, she explains how she came to write the script, which tells the story of a couple of lovers against the Bosnian war.

Apparently, fans have to thank a bout of influenza for it.

“I had the flu. I had to be quarantined from the children for two days. I was in the attic of a house in France. I was isolated, pacing. I don’t watch TV and I wasn’t reading anything. So I started writing. I went from the beginning to the end. I didn’t know any other way,” Jolie says for the magazine.

When Brad first read the script, he was supportive of her, even though he didn’t want to give her false hope – so he just told her “it’s not that bad.”

Later on, as she spoke with her partner about whether she should also direct the film and eventually went on to do just that, Angelina was told that she’d become, in time, a pain in the neck for other directors.

“Brad thinks I’m going to be a nightmare. I had such a good experience he thinks I’m going to be impatient with directors, which I already am. I get impatient with people working on a film that have their head in their hands like it’s the most complicated thing in the world,” Jolie says.

Of course, this isn’t to say that she didn’t have some issues when she set out to direct her first movie: she was nervous to the extreme and felt bad whenever she did something wrong but, eventually, she learned to use those mistakes in her favor.

Her only hope right now is that her first film will get people talking. Admittedly, Brad can’t speak any higher of it, but Angie believes he’s being just a tad subjective about it.

“I don’t think he’s a fair judge. People will judge for themselves. I think if you make a good movie people walk away arguing,” she says.

More from the interview here.