“I see myself moving into directing more and doing much less as an actor,” Jolie tells EW. “I have a few more in me, ones I have been developing for some time, so I will do those before I step away.”

One of those will be in next year’s By the Sea, a film Jolie wrote, directed and starred in alongside new husband Brad Pitt. “It was a new experience as I had to direct myself and Brad in very dramatic and emotional scenes,” she says of the relationship drama set in 1970s France. But it was also a great joy to be back on set with him after ten years.”

The couple first paired up in 2005′s Mr. & Mrs. Smith. “[By the Sea] is a very different film than our first. It’s heavy. We really had to help each other. And we did.”