But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.
George ClooneyRead
I have a real interest in pushing some of the limits of things that studios don't want to make.
Interpretation
George Clooney expresses his desire to explore unconventional and challenging cinematic projects that studios typically avoid.
In this quote, George Clooney highlights his passion for creative innovation and the courage to tackle projects that are often considered too risky for mainstream studios. It reflects his commitment to pushing boundaries in film-making, seeking to create art that provokes thought and challenges audiences rather than adhering to safe, commercially viable choices.
In practice
This quote could be used during a filmmaker's panel discussion about creative risks in storytelling.
But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.
You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk.
My biggest fear is doing the same things 10 years from now. That would be a failure. It's something you have to constantly reassess, and asking yourself what you are going to do next makes it a good, long full journey.
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.
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.
It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie from a bad script.
There's racist casting, and there is normal casting. Normal casting, to me, is a process that strives for representation and, in many cases, strives to simply portray the world as it actually is instead of as falsely non-inclusive. And sadly, sometimes that involves removing the whitewash that exists on history.
We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too. The tom-tom cries and the tom-tom laughs. If colored people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter either. We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
We all steal, but if we're smart we steal from great directors. Then, we can call it influence.
God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.
I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.
A photographer is part pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer.
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