Shia LaBeouf Will Now Only Express Himself in Free Verse

Complex Magazine attempted to interview Shia LaBeouf at the Tribeca Film Festival. Rookie mistake, Complex. Shia LaBeouf, being Shia LaBeouf, decided that this time, he would only answer questions in the form of a poem. Here are some of the highlights:

The projects you attach your name to often explore the self. Many pose a greater existential question, and I think that's true with LoveTrue as well (in this case, what it means to love). How, if at all, did this film relate to other projects you take on in film and other mediums?

"LoveTrue is quite metamodern

In that you are watching broken ironic people

Trying to find (and make) meaning

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I'm into work that intervenes 

in the status quo

Alma is intervening in the genre

She is pursuing the tension inherent 

To documenting people

The idea that documentaries are not manipulated and shaped is bullshit

She's a truth seer

She's not pitching you a false 

fly on the wall Documentation

It's elephant in the room Documentation 

she's using this platform to explore limits 

Of reality, Of self, Of the medium

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this film was made w/ no ambitions for itself

past exploration, engagement & affect

Alma is very, very good at what she does

She put her heart and soul into this

& found others along the way 

willing to do the same 

The result is really amazing

I'm pleased as punch to be apart of it"

What does metamodernism mean to you both in the context of LoveTrue and in your projects?

"It's a romantic reaction to crisis

It's a structure of feeling"

In LoveTrue, Alma utilized psychodramatic techniques to achieve the film's ambitious narrative. Can you explain how that compares to method acting? Do they function similarly?

":)

?"

You of course worked on documentary-style work with Rönkkö and Turner for #TOUCHMYSOUL, but has LoveTrue sparked an interest in working on more documentaries?

"That #TOUCHMYSOUL video you saw was made by FACT's PR team

Not our collective

& though I think it's beautiful

We were not involved creatively 

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No

This was a onetime thing I believe

I have no ambitions at all 

to be a producer"

In related Shia news, The Hollywood Reporter states that a 26-year-old man was sucker punched on the Lower East Side because the assailant thought he looked like Shia LaBeouf. Sounds about right.