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when he comes into possession of a car that can morph into the giant Transformer nicknamed Bumblebee. "Look, I'm not playing the Elephant Man. So there's that," he says. "My big thing was like, just understanding objectives, and maintaining neurosis. Just keeping it at 11. Everything's amped. It's just a super-amped character. Sam is just neurosis. That's the key to him. That's just the whole thing. So if you maintain that, it's something you just got to focus on. And it's a big thing, you know, when you're in the middle of a ballet with these robots, the movement, thinking about it, it can be tough, but it's not supremely hard."

The set could also get pretty dangerous sometimes. Of injuries, LaBeouf says, "Everyone got something. I got a scar on my ribs...One of these Navy SEALS we have tore his ACL. People just got injured."

Being an excitable young adult in the prime of his life, LaBeouf has other things on his mind besides just endless questions about Transformers. "There's other things I've started focusing on that isn't business. Like, dating is all new. So that's become, like, a major priority for me in my life," he says. "It's funny, but it's not funny, it's for real, you know?"

He quickly backs away from the topic -- "We're not going that route. No, I'm just saying there's other things to focus on." -- but finds himself coming back to it soon enough. He can be at times disarmingly honest and winkingly overconfident, sometimes both at once. Take what he says about his co-star and love interest in the film, Megan Fox: "Dude, I'm in to her," he says good-naturedly. "What do you want? I'm into Megan. Like, what do you want me to say. That's the way it was the whole time we were filming. Immense attraction. You know? On my part, for real."

Ever the savvy businessman, though, his point turns out to be that his attraction to Fox helped the film. "It comes across on camera, and there's a lot of heart to it. It's a good thing. When it's for real you don't have to conjure stuff up. You know? But you maintain the distance so you can keep it, like, that freshness. Seriously."

As for his real dating life, he mentions he had previously been in a relationship for a while, but otherwise, he keeps the details to a minimum. "I'm pretty smoothe. I get haiku poems all prepared. I'm so slick." He does, however, offer a bit of advice that directly correlates to his movie. "Chicks dig the car? I think that's a bunch of garbage, I don't think chicks dig the car. I don't think chicks care about the car."

Almost as a defense mechanism, he ...

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