SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- Harrison Ford certainly is not high-tech, but he's not exactly low-tech, either. Ford, who plays a gadget genius in the cyber-heist thriller "Firewall," is more on the low end of middle-tech.

The Associated Press asked the "Indiana Jones" star, an airplane pilot well-versed in the latest navigational advances, how up-to-date he is on everyday consumer technology.

AP: How computer savvy are you?

Ford: I use computers a lot in flying airplanes and to plan flights, but I just use it as a convenience. I don't really know that much about computers. I spend more time getting it fixed than I do using it.

AP: Are you a technophobe?

Ford: Not a technophobe, but, also, there are complicated systems that you have to learn already, and the only thing you learn about your computers in flying is that if they don't work, you better have the basic skills necessary for navigation and for flying the plane without the computer.

AP: Your character in "Firewall" does clever things with his daughter's MP3 player. Do you listen to music in MP3 format?

Ford: I have an iPod. I guess that's an MP3 player, right? I haven't opened the package. For a couple of years, it's been sitting on my desk.

AP: Why's that?

Ford: Because if I got it out of the box, then I'd have to load it song by song from the computer, the way I understand it. And I just can't imagine taking the time to do that. But I suppose I will some day.

AP: If you have a choice of listening to music on vinyl, CD, satellite radio or some other source, which would it be?

Ford: Probably vinyl. I used to think that an analog wave form is different than a bit wave form, and although I'm sure that you can't really tell the difference with the conscious mind, I think the unconscious mind probably uses that information which you aurally receive in a different way. Digital is probably not the best form to reach your soul. Probably the analog wave form goes deeper into your heart.

AP: I see you have a multipurpose cell phone and handheld device. Do you use it for e-mail?

Ford: No. The last thing I want are e-mails to follow me around. But it's got my phone book in it. That's the reason I like it.

AP: What are your thoughts on e-mail?

Ford: I've got a couple of friends that e-mail a whole address book. Every time they decide to send an e-mail, something that amuses them, they send it to 40 people or however many people. I get a lot of e-mails from a few people, and then the important ones get lost in between.