George Clooney
George Clooney
George Timothy Clooneyis an American actor, filmmaker, and activist. He has received three Golden Globe Awards for his work as an actor and two Academy Awards, one for acting and the other for producing...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth6 May 1961
CityLexington, KY
CountryUnited States of America
american-journalist films
You make a lot of films, do you? You make a lot of films yourself? Yeah, I'd like to see you make a film first before you get to talk about it. What a jerk.
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This is not an industry that says OK. It has to be about big business and big budgets. I think the beauty of the academy is that it finds little moments to say, 'Let's talk about these films and let's talk about things that maybe the rest of the mainstream doesn't get a chance to see.
fun sound-and-music film-directing
Acting is one element in a film. Directing is sort of the painter using all of those elements - sound and music and camera and putting it all together. And that can be fun and exciting. If you fail, it's incredibly upsetting - much more upsetting than when you're an actor. But when you succeed it's incredibly, incredibly exciting, so I like the risk of it all.
answers film asks
I'm interested in making films that ask questions and don't particularly provide answers.
film fame enjoy
Fame can be very dangerous, because you can start to enjoy that part of it. And that's not the good part of what I do for a living. The good part is the making of films. The unpleasant part is the fame part, if you're not careful.
done film continuing
Most of the films I've done haven't done particularly well. I'm surprised I'm continuing to work.
film ninety mediocre
Ninety percent of films are pretty mediocre, but they have a built-in audience and open on 3,000 screens.
three film coming-out
It's not ideal to have three films coming out at once
scripts film said
What I learned is that I should probably read a screenplay every once in a while before I said 'yes'. You could make bad film out of a good script, but you're never going to make a good film out of a bad script.
done world film
So far I've done two films that have basically been about television because I know that world.
careful dad facts scene single
When I started to do it, my dad said, 'be very careful with your facts'. And we double-sourced every single scene
backwards sort worked
I sort of worked backwards in a way,
beautiful few met together woman
I see them together and they look very content, which makes me happy. I've met her a few times. She is a very beautiful woman and very clued up.
ask bucks charge gotta money okay people three tom
People thought I was Tom and Nicole's bodyguard. They'd come up and go, "Is it okay if I go up and ask for an autograph? It was good. I'd charge 'em three bucks a person. Yeah, you gotta make some money off of that.