Clooney on how he wants to leverage his fame and power as a box office commodity while he still can: “I want to say I did it when it wasn’t very easy. If it costs you a career, credibility and all those things, that means you did it on your own volition and you have to live with that. I’m OK with that. I’d rather be able to point back and say, ‘At this exact moment in history when it was kind of tricky to do this, these are the stories I told. — George Clooney, Los Angeles Times, September 18, 2005.