George Clooney Film Quotations

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.

Most of the films I've done haven't done particularly well. I'm surprised I'm continuing to work.

So far I've done two films that have basically been about television because I know that world.

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.

It's not ideal to have three films coming out at once

Ninety percent of films are pretty mediocre, but they have a built-in audience and open on 3,000 screens.

I'm interested in making films that ask questions and don't particularly provide answers.

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.