Shia LaBeouf Talks About "Disturbia" and Acting

Shia LaBeouf’s Not a Whiz with Technical Stuff: The actor admits that in that respect he’s nothing like his character in Disturbia. “No, I'm not the MacGyver like he is,” admitted LaBeouf. “He's really like on a different level. You have to be an expert to know that you can take a baby camera apart and to be able to set it up like that. I have no idea — the wireless and all that. I can hook my computer up, but that's just because I can take the green plug and put it into the green outlet. I'm not the real technological [type]. ...But I'm big on the Internet. I'm big on the cell phone. But I'm not a technological wizard, no.”

Shia LaBeouf Reflects on His Career: LaBeouf’s always had a clear idea of where he wanted to go and how he was going to get there. Asked if he’s sticking to the path he set up years ago, LaBeouf replied, “It's successful thus far. Sure, I may have to change something up I'm sure. It's all about change. It's all about diversity. If people won't get bored with you, then you're okay, you're safe. But even if you fail, like putting your neck out and you do something really crazy and it doesn't quite work, just the fact that you put yourself out there… It’s the Johnny Depp thing. You watch some of his movies and not all of them work, but the fact that he put his neck out and that he had the balls enough to have the courage to try something new, is enough.

Excavating this is tough because you always want to make the best movie possible, but you also want to do different things. Sometimes you've already made a movie similar that was good or not good, and there's a similar movie that comes around that's too similar. Even though it's a good film with good actors involved, you can't do it because it's way too similar.

Like there's a Kerouac movie that they're making now. I think [Jake Gyllenhaal's in it and the director of Motorcycle Diaries, and they hit me up and asked me to play Allen Ginsberg. Now for me and my family and my lineage, my grandmother was a poet, a beatnik lesbian poet, in the ‘50s and this was right up my alley. This is something that's just not big for my family but big in terms of artistic. To play Ginsberg would be incredible, to go get lost in that. You read his biography and he's very similar to the character in Bobby. He wore the glasses, he had the haircut, it's just too similar. It would be an amazing role, but I can't do it because it's just too similar. Sometimes it's tough. Sometimes you almost wish you didn't do a movie so you could do a different movie, although I loved Bobby and everything that's in that movie, but Ginsberg would have been really wild.”