George Clooney Quotes

I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.

Going into my second film as a director, it's night and day of what it was like going into my first film. It doesn't matter what you know in your head and what you've been taught until you're there and doing it; it's a whole new ball game.

I want to learn. I want to stretch my muscles as a director and work under different circumstances.

Sometimes it's very difficult to do a movie that's good and then have that movie make it to the light of day.

I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it. And it's pretty irritating to get a movie on. So to complicate it by having more irritation as a director, I don't really need it. And because I direct a great deal still, but in the theater, I kind of get that anyway. Which is not at all to say I would never do it again, or it would never happen again.

It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.

Design truly is a contact sport. It demands that we bring all of our senses to the task, and that we apply the very best of our thinking, our feeling and our doing to the challenge that we have at hand.

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first.

My god is narrative filmmaking.

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until we are almost 100.

It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!

Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.

Don't punk out and don't quit.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.

If you're feeling helpless, help someone.

The real person you are is revealed in the moments when you're certain no other person is watching. When no one is watching, you are driven by what you expect of yourself.

The biggest thing that I came across, right off the bat, was that you can't shoot this like a regular movie with multiple takes. You have to, because it's such a protracted process, break it down to the frame and pretty much get one shot.

Security is a kind of death.

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."