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.
George ClooneyI find politics in almost every country I go to be incredibly different and incredibly similar and I'm never surprised by anything.
George ClooneyAn acting career usually has about a shelf life of ten years before people get sick of seeing you. It's a good thing to have a job to fall back on and I really do enjoy directing.
George ClooneyMy father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain amount of compromise.
George ClooneyI had to stop going to auditions thinking, 'Oh, I hope they like me.' I had to go in thinking I was the answer to their problem.
George Clooney