After all the negative response to Ocean's Twelve, do you feel like you evened the score with Thirteen?
I feel like we got the movie back. I thought Twelve missed in some ways. You get to a point where you go, ''Well, now, do we really want all these guys to just get richer?'' It started to feel like wealthy guys looking to get wealthier, which correlated into people's opinions of the actors as well. And I think people didn't dig it as much. Thirteen made sense because it was a revenge picture.

So is the door open or closed on doing an Ocean's Fourteen?
Absolutely, without question, closed. The only person who tries to keep it open is Jerry [Weintraub], because he's the consummate producer.

You and your Ocean's cohorts — Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, and Weintraub — also started a nonprofit, Not on Our Watch, this year.
What happened was, Jerry said, ''We're going to the Cannes Film Festival.'' And I said, ''Well, that's a dumb thing, to take a second sequel to the Cannes Film Festival. That just screams 'Get your ass kicked by a lot of people.''' Then I was like, You know what? If we're going to go and get our ass kicked, then at least there's going to be a million cameras around and a million people around, and Europe isn't talking about Darfur nearly as much as the United States is. So let's make it worth our while. Let's make all those cameras do something. Now we're actually becoming a legitimate, real, ongoing charity as opposed to this one-time big hit. Like, we have the worst Internet page you've ever seen in your life. But Brad, Matt, and Don aren't the guys who just show up at charities. These guys really put their money where their mouth is and go to work. Brad goes down to New Orleans and designs houses, and Matt and Don go into Africa. I'm very proud to be amongst that group.

So was your motorcycle accident the one big bummer for you this year?
That was a drag. This is hysterical: In one of the scenes [of Burn After Reading] I've got this triangular-shaped pillow that's supposedly a ''marital aid'' of some sort, and my character leaves home with it. And the [paparazzi] got a picture of me with it. And then [the papers] said ever since my motorcycle accident I've had to use this marital aid! Tomorrow I have to do a scene out on the Mall in Washington where I have to stand up on a chair and cry really loudly like a 6-year-old. I'm sure that'll be all over the papers too.

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