Leo! Leo! Leo!

All grown-up and making lots of sense about his sure-to-be-controversial new movie, Blood Diamond:

The movie has come under fire from the diamond industry, which insists the issue of conflict diamonds took place in the 1990s and has been almost completely eradicated. Did the gemstone industry contact you directly?

I’ve gotten letters, and I didn’t respond to any of them. There’s been a huge PR push to let people get a better understanding that this stuff has dramatically decreased. But certainly if you talk to Global Witness or Amnesty International they’d tell you there are still major problems, especially on the Ivory Coast. They want to end conflict diamonds for good. I don’t want to go out there and project myself as an expert on the issue. I’m not an expert, and this is not what I do full time. I’m an actor who’s playing a part. If the movie does anything, it will bring more awareness to the issue and people will be asking more questions, and the industry is going to have to have viable answers.

Hear, hear.