As Bill Murray legend has it, if you want to get ahold of the actor to talk about life, love, or a potential movie project, you have to track down a mythical 1-800 number and leave a message. The actor does not have a lawyer. He does not have an agent. He just has the 1-800 number which—according to filmmaker Theodore Melfi, who was miraculously able to cast Murray in St. Vincent, out this October—annoyingly does not even have his voice on the recording. So if you get through to the alleged number, and manage to navigate the voicemail menu, you are never really sure that you’ve left a message for the right person.

But just because the actor does not have any contact numbers on record does not mean that the elusive actor does not have a phone. The Telegraph managed to nail down an in-person interview with Murray during the Toronto International Film Festival, and asked the actor—who pops up randomly at ice-cream socials, minor-league baseball turnstiles, and engagement-photo shoots—just how he stays connected with the world.

Turns out that the actor does have a cell phone, which he uses for one thing only: texting. He sends messages, receives them, and judging by the amount of text messages that he says he received on Toronto’s Bill Murray Day, more than a few people have the number. (Describing the holiday, Murray tells The Telegraph, “I rode my bicycle around the streets and people called out to me and waved and I had a lot of texts and I saw a lot of old friends.”) For other electronic needs, Murray reveals that he has an iPad that is primarily used to play the game Clash of Clans with one of his six sons. Confirming the obvious, Murray added, “I don’t like talking on the telephone.”

The actor will, however, pick up the phone if he hears of a project that sounds interesting. While in Toronto, Melfi described, in nerve-thrashing detail, the weeks he spent trying to get in contact with Murray to USA Today. In the end, it wasn’t even the many voicemails he left over the course of nearly two months that reached Murray—it was a snail-mail letter that he sent to to a post office recommended by Murray’s lawyer. The events that then unfurled, per Melfi: