Talk, don’t pose
As part of his unexplained camera shyness, Phoenix doesn’t believe in taking pictures with fans. Instead, when fans ask him for a picture, he suggests they have a conversation. Phoenix is known for never taking selfies with fans. However, if you’re lucky enough to run into him somewhere around Hollywood Hills, you’re in for a treat.
When a fan spotted him at a department store and approached him for a photo, she might have left disappointed – since she had no concrete evidence to brag with her friends – but Phoenix explained he wasn’t one to take selfies, and instead they chatted it up, before she went on to buy some socks and he shopped for “stupid little sweatpants.”