Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie had big plans for a big family.

While the the A-list couple currently has six children -- Maddox, 14, Pax, 12, Zahara, 10, Shiloh, 9, and Knox and Vivienne, 7-year-old twins -- Pitt revealed in a new interview with The Telegraph that the couple originally had even higher numbers in mind.

"Listen, Angie and I were aiming for a dozen, but we crapped out after six," he said.

The star went on to recall enjoying interactions he had with the family of a college friend who had seven siblings.

"His mom would be making breakfast for everyone, throwing eggs and pancakes around, and I thought, thats the way I want to do it."

Elsewhere in the interview, Pitt opens up about working with Jolie on her new film, "By The Sea," in which they co-star and Jolie wrote and directed. Earlier this month, the two posed at the premiere of the title outside the Directors Guild of America Theatre in New York.