I've had some success at writing and directing, and I like it. It's infinitely more creative than just acting, and I have things I want to say and do. George Clooney More Quotes by George Clooney More Quotes From George Clooney When you go to Detroit you see a town that is resilient, that's just fighting to win again, and there's an energy to that. Just watching a city really fighting to get back on its feet and watching the inner strength of a city is tremendous. George Clooney fighting cities winning The best lesson my mom taught me was how to be scrappy. George Clooney taught lessons mom If you try desperately to hang on to something that used to be a success for you, it's going to go away. You have to change. George Clooney going-away used trying The Patriot Act is certainly a concern; all of those things are dangerous. I think more important than me preaching is that we as a nation have to have the debate. I don't know what the answers are. I just know that if the idea is to say talking about it makes you unpatriotic, I've got to call your bluff on that. George Clooney talking ideas thinking I'm a liberal. I'm confused when that became a bad word... George Clooney progressive bad-word confused I've been my most happy and my most unhappy in relationships. I have family and friends and people I care very much about. I've got a really, really, really good life. George Clooney good-life family-and-friends people The hardest thing is trying not to correct everything on the Internet. It'd be night and day - wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. So you just have to say, All right, I'll take it, bring it on. George Clooney internet trying night Both of my grandparents died of lung cancer. So I got quite a lesson in the payback later in life of smoking, and if you keep it up how bad it can be. George Clooney grandparent cancer later-in-life As time goes on and you become more comfortable in your career path, and things are starting to make sense, and it's not just about work, you find that you're able to focus on other things and other people. George Clooney focus careers people I'm always sort of optimistic about how good we are, as a country, at fixing ourselves. George Clooney fixing optimistic country Growing up during the Cold War period, I always found that, although we always thought that the world would end in some sort of nuclear holocaust, at some point, everybody was pretty hopeful. George Clooney hopeful growing-up war "Is Art worth dying for?" Well I don't know a single inanimate object that's worth dying for. George Clooney inanimate-objects dying art It's not ideal to have three films coming out at once. George Clooney coming-out film three If we dig deep in our history and remember that we are not descendants from fearful people, we proclaim ourselves indeed as we are the defenders of freedom wherever it continues to exist in the world. George Clooney remember people world What I try to do is make sure that the directors I'm working with are on the same page and want to do the same kind of films. You can really protect yourself as an actor if you work with really good people. It can hide a lot of flaws along the way. George Clooney trying directors people It is a question in that case of breaking up one piece of art, and whether that piece of art can be as best as possible put back together. So it's an argument to say, maybe that's one of those instances, like the bust of Nefertiti, I think that should be given back [Egyptian piece currently in Neues Museum in Berlin]. It's one of those pieces you look at and think that would probably be the right thing to do. George Clooney museums art thinking When you see Hitler burning paintings by Salvador Dali and Picasso he's telling you that this time period and these men and this culture didn't exist, and I've seen that happen in other countries, Sudan for instance, it's not enough to kill them you have to destroy all of their markings that they left that was their history. George Clooney men country culture Politicians have a tremendous amount of ego to be able to do it. It's very hard when the product your selling to an entire country is yourself and you're just selling the hell out of it all the time. George Clooney ego able country In the United States 95% of the people who win elections have the most money. That's it. So, money is a big part of elections. But that happens all the time. George Clooney united-states winning people 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. George Clooney scripts film should
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