Ben: [dramatic voice]Why? So I spend more time hooked into an electronic device.

BBO: Actually it can be a good promotion-tool, I think. There are lots of actors twittering with hundreds of thousands of followers.

Ben: I am just not that compulsive of a sharer that I need to share my day [laughs] “I am at Home Depot. I am shopping for a rake. Anybody have a suggestion for a good rake ?”

[both laughing]

Ben: I am seeing people’s twitters. I don’t get it. I guess if I was really fascinated by somebody I might want to know what they are doing every 30 minutes all day long but [laughs] I don’t see myself broadcasting my daily “I am having my coffee.  Black.  I like it that way.”  [laughs] I don’t get it.

BBO: [laughs] Actually I didn’t mean in terms of sharing your private life. I know you are very private and like to spend every minute you can with your family.

Ben: That’s true.  I am actually trying to find ways to cut down on the electronic uses. I like to occasionally just l-e-a-v-e my phone at home when I leave the house. Just every so often. Leave the phone. I am now free. It feels like I am living in the 70s or something [laughs and adapts funny voice] No one can get to me; I don’t have a phone on me. These are precious moments. Who knows, maybe one day I’ll end up twittering when I have something really interesting to twitter about, then I might decide to twitter[laughs] But not today. I don’t really have anything interesting to say on an hour by hour basis.

BBO:  Just promote the movie while you are at the supermarket – in line [laughs]

Ben:  [laughs] “I am in the freezer sections.  Making me think “Freeze Frame”” [laughs] No … not yet. I haven’t  gone to that place yet. [laughs]

BBO: You gotta be the only person [in entertainment] who doesn’t own a Blackberry.

Ben: I am sure there is lots of people who don’t own Blackberrys [laughs] It’s another portable information device. If I have to text, I can use my phone. I go the old route. Tap that button 3 times to get my “H”, you know what I mean ? [laughs]

BBO: [laughs]

Ben: That way it keeps the messages REALLY short. And I am not a hazard in traffic. I am still amazed at these people, driving AND texting at the same time. I thought talking on the phone was bad enough but you go down  the LA freeway, sure they made it illegal, but there is still people with the Blackberry on top of their wheel at 75 mph in traffic - texting.

BBO: That’s what my niece does. She doesn’t even look while texting.

Ben:  There is nothing that I have to say that is important enough for me to kill somebody on the freeway. It’s just not … there is nothing that urgent. If it is that urgent – pull over [laughs]

BBO:  I am not even driving, so …