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The rock star seems to understand that, since he's consented to being the subject of Being Mick -- an hour-long TV documentary, directed by Oscar-winning film-maker Kevin MacDonald (One Day In September). It airs Thursday night.
"It's really about me making this record (Goddess In The Doorway) and producing this movie (Enigma) and some more sort of personal things going on in my life over the last year," Jagger says.
"And I started shooting when I started recording the record. I was shooting on my own, with my video camera, and then I did about six months of that and then I thought I better get someone else involved."
Jagger says the documentary is a good mix of his personal life and music career -- "It's both of them intertwined" -- and he, for one, never minded the presence of the camera.
"Oh, that's all right. You know I did it all myself so it's not like someone's done it on the sly. I think it's quite fun, you know. It's like a nice look."
Jagger has long been interested in the visual arts. Don't forget he made his feature-film debut -- as a fictional character -- in 1970's Performance.
As a matter of fact, he was supposed to attend the Toronto International Film Festival in September with two films, Enigma (about the struggle to crack the Nazis' Enigma code in WWII) and The Man From Elysian Fields (he plays an escort service owner). He was in Paris on Sept. 11 and ended up cancelling his trip here.
"I like both," he says of producing versus acting in films. "They're two very different things, very different. One can be like a creative, organizing role and the other one, acting, is ... mostly interpretive. And they use different parts of you, and different sides of you, and different so-called talents."
Not that he's prepared to give up his day job.
"I mean, I love music. I really don't see myself being apart from music. I like doing lots of different things. I've been involved in film for quite a long time and I just like doing film. And now I'm concentrating on doing music, but I'd like to do as much as I can without detriment, and to do both."
Jagger says he hopes to produce The Long Play next, a script he's working on with filmmaker Martin Scorsese and former Rolling Stone writer Rich Cohen.
"I'm very keen to finish that and get him (Scorsese) to direct it," Jagger says. "It's about two businessmen in the world of music, who start off in 1965 and you follow their lives from 1965 to 1995."