Brad Pitt tells some personal details of his own in the October issue of Details magazine, about being a father to his four lovely children, Angie, the ubiquitous paparazzi and aging.

Actor Brad Pitt is enjoyably eloquent in the October issue of Details magazine, as he shares his perspective on fatherhood and watching the lines of his face change as he grows older

Brad and Angelina Jolie, whom he fondly calls Angie in the interview, starred in the 2005 action movie “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” - the rest is history. The two Hollywood superstars are now proud parents of the Jolie-Pitt brood.

Four children from around the world: Cambodian-born Maddox, who is five; 2 and a half year old Zahara Marley, born in Ethiopia; Vietnam-born Pax Thien, who is almost four; and Shiloh Nouvel, the couple’s biological child, born in Namibia in May 2006.

Too many, too soon? Brad certainly doesn’t think so.

“Well, I had one kid, then two kids, then three kids. Two and a half years or so. Listen, I’ve always embraced extremes, so it doesn’t feel odd to me. There’s a couple weeks of finding your balance, and then it’s in stone.”

Now 43, the Hollywood actor is content with his life. Growing older is a bit of an annoyance, but he’s getting through that too.

“I liked it,” he says of turning 40. “Maybe I had a crisis earlier or something. Maybe I had it in my thirties.” He adds, “One thing sucks, your face kind of goes. Your body’s not quite working the same. But you earned it. You earned that, things falling apart.”

The actor also talks about the ever-present paparazzi and how he worries of the effect this may have on his children. “I just think how strange it is for my kids. Mad, Z, Pax - they really believe that every time you go outside, there is a herd of people with cameras snapping flashes in your face ... That is their vision of the world outside.”

At the end of the day, it is clearly his family that makes him the happiest.

“My daughter’s from Ethiopia, two sons from Asia, a daughter who’s born in Namibia - and they are brother and sister,” he says. “They are a bond, they are a family. And I want to see those bonds and that family grow. And that right there, sitting in our kitchen, is how I want to see the world. It’s how I want the world to be.”

Brad Pitt was at the Venice Film festival earlier this week, present at the premiere of his most recent film “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,” where his co-stars are Casey Affleck, Mary-Louise Parker, Sam Shepard, Sam Rockwell and Zooey Deschanel.