Warren Beatty has said he has spent 60 years laughing off rumours about himself, but that it 'comes with the territory' when you're involved in show business.
The 80-year-old Oscar-winning filmmaker told RTÉ Entertainment that while he has been the subject of the rumour mill for decades, he is more concerned with how new technology has increased the volume of false information being produced in the realms of foreign policy and economics.
"It's been going on so long for me, because it started in 1959, that I think it kind of comes with the territory, as Arthur Miller would've said about (Death of a Salesman character) Willy Loman," Beatty told RTÉ Entertainment.
"What is somewhat alarming is the increase the new technology has afforded to gossip, and I'm not using the word I want to use – I'll say baloney – but there's another word, but I don't know about your channel, whether you want to hear me say it, but there is so much of it, that its worrying, but you shouldn't worry about show business.
"When it applies to foreign policy or economics or the stock market or whatever, then there's some reason to worry about it."
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Beatty, who makes his big screen comeback after over 15 years with his new release Rules Don't Apply, went on to say that while there is more scope for gossip these days, he feels people's understanding of issues isn't as deep as it used to be.
"You kind of have to laugh at it after a while, but that's almost 60 years for me of laughing at it, or trying to. It has increased, it has increased and it doesn't last long," he said.
"I think one of the most worrying things is the brevity of interest in anything now, new technology wants to be paid attention to so we jump to something new, so we hear more about more different things, but I think our understanding of these things is not as deep as it used to be, because they don't hang around for long."
Rules Don't Apply is in cinemas now.
