George Clooney Quotes on Time (10 Quotes)

I thought it was a good time to talk about responsibilities of the Fourth Estate and always questioning authority - which at times we shirk.

It makes for a fun year. It makes it fun because you spend a lot of time trying to get things done that you want, that you believe in, but they're hard to get done, and it's tricky, and usually you don't get the toys to play with, you know what I mean You only get them for a very short period of time, as you and I both know. So, if you get lucky enough to have them work, then you feel you caught a break along the way. I feel like I caught a break.

This is fun ... this is the golden time.

The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say, 'Oh, it's really tough, my character is really suffering' -come on. For us, even in the rotten ones we've had a good time. I don't think you have to suffer.

This was an important period of time in (my father's) history, in shaping what he was as a newsman. It was the high-water mark, ... And when I started to do it, my dad said, 'Be very careful with your facts.' And so we double-sourced every single scene.

The entire society is more political than it has been in a long time. You can sit in a coffee shop in Cincinnati, and you hear people talking on either side of the aisles about political films.

You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now.

Italy had one of the biggest corporate scandals of all time, America had the biggest corporate scandal of all time. So I think the idea of talking about and pointing a finger at corporate scandals is always going to be fair game in terms of subject matter.

I think the truth is and the secret to this is in a way of trying to not be polarizing and I find that people on the left and right are - it's an incredibly polarized time. In general we're trying to find things that we can agree on and one of them for me is we have to agree on the idea that we're allowed to question authority.

My father was a television anchorman and Murrow was one of his heroes. And I have always had a fascination with that moment in history because it was one of two times that broadcast journalism had an immediate effect. The other time was when Walter Cronkite went to Vietnam,