- Title: FJ-HRN-2053
- Summary: Leatherheads - George Clooney: Leatherheads Junket George Clooney Interview
- Description:07:51:06 - Sound Bite: George Clooney the locations That and wed gone to Duluth to look at where the real towns were, and we were gonna shoot in February, and Duluth in February is 10 degrees below zero, and we thought well were never going to be able to shoot this movie like that, so the Carolinas was the perfect place to shoot. 07:51:26 - Sound Bite: George Clooney meeting the townspeople Well you dont get that much time to do that because I was prepping most of the time, so we were looking at uh scouting locations, theres a lot, theres a lot of scenes in this movie and a lot of locations and you know dozens of stadiums, so it was more about seeing, like youd go to a stadium and youd meet the people there and youd go to this place and meet those people, so it was more about, I didnt really get a chance to hang out. 07:51:53 - Sound Bite: George Clooney on directing and acting at the same time Um more difficult to direct myself in a lead. Ive done smaller parts in the films Ive directed, and that was easy, uh but this one was trickier, a little trickier, but you know we got through it, you know such wonderful actors with Renee and John that I didnt have a huge problem, you know. 07:52:21 - Sound Bite: George Clooney separating acting from directing Yeah you can, its the funniest thing, because what it means is you do the scene, get slapped with mud, you get hit, and everybody jumps up and then I go cut and then I run across the field to the monitor and I watch the take, and I go, ok lets do it again or lets not do it again, so youre basically running back and forth to the monitor after every take. 07:52:42 - Sound Bite: George Clooney a director covered in mud Yeah, theres a lot of film of that, it looks ridiculous. 07:52:55 - Sound Bite: George Clooney learning the craft of directing through other directors Well, the Coen brothers, I mean Tony it was his first film, he did a wonderful job, but you know um I would think that the Coen brothers I stole from, I didnt just learn from them, I stole from them. And Steven Soderbergh, I think Tony and I would both say that we learned form Steven Soderbergh a lot too. Uh and then you learn from all the guys that came before you, you know you look at you have to go back and look at Preston Sturges films and you have to look at Howard Hawks and George Stevens films and things like that. 07:53:34 - Sound Bite: George Clooney balancing comedy and drama Well it wasnt about sanity as much as it was about um my career as a director. After Good Night and Good Luck, and Syriana for that matter, everything that was being sent to me as a director were issues based, you know very big, you know the Richard Clark book or you know the new Valarie Plane story or one of those kinds of things, and I thought if I do that Im sort of pigeonholed into this and I wont be able to do anything but that, and for the first film Confessions to Good Night and Good Luck, I wanted to be able to mix it up and do something different, and so I wanted to do a comedy to make sure I didnt get stuck. 07:54:11 - Sound Bite: George Clooney Well I do, I have an old, one old regular car that I drive, but I have uh a Tango which an all electric call, I have the Tesla coming which is an all electric car, and I ride motorcycles most of the time, 85 percent of the time. It was supposed to rain today, it doesnt look like its going to, but uh usually I ride motorcycles. 07:54:30 - Sound Bite: George Clooney Well theres a lot of green things you can do, turning off your lights, and you know, recycling and all those sort of things. I have a very difficult time, I dont wanna be the spokesman for green, although I believe in it completely, but I have a sort of a spot that people could point at and say well, yeah, didnt you fly on a private jet, and then I could harm that movement, so I dont wanna be a spokesman for it, but I very much believe in it and do the best I can to uh to make sure that I dont exploit the energy thats around.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/2008
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 2000s
- File Name: FJ-HRN-2053