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" 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
Writing
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" I bought a piano once because I had the dream of playing As Time Goes By as some girl's leaning on it drinking a martini. Great image. But none of it worked out. I can't even play Chopsticks. But I've got a nice piano at my house! "
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" I had my Aunt Rosie, who was famous and then not, so I got a lesson in fame early on. And I understood how little it has to do with you. And also how you could use it. "
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" My father was and is a great journalist. Thirty years ago, I was studying broadcasting in college, and the problem was I wasn't nearly as good as my father. I wasn't as quick or as smart as my old man, and I realized it would be a long time before I was ever going to be, and I decided to do something else. "
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" Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint. "
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" It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen. "
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" On Christmas morning, before we could open our Christmas presents, we would go to this stranger's home and bring them presents. I remember helping clean the house up and putting up a tree. My father believed that you have a responsibility to look after everyone else. "
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" Most of the films I've done haven't done particularly well. I'm surprised I'm continuing to work. "
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" I probably wouldn't be a good spokesman for an electric car, because I'll still get on a private jet, and one flight on a private jet undoes all my electric-car good deeds. "
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