from an article at Scotsman.com and when speaking about the influences for his upcoming film Michael Clayton this bit of information came out.
As a gift to friends for Christmas last year, he gave DVDs of his 100 favourite films from 1964 to 1976. "You look at these films and you find at least ten films a year that are masterpieces and the people who were making them were Hollywood studios," he continues. "They just don't make those films any more; you couldn't come anyway near that today. Michael Clayton was offered to a studio, but they simply wouldn't touch it."
They also talk a bit about his other upcoming films.
Clooney's next directorial outing, the romcom Leatherheads, which is set in the world of 1920s American football, where the owner of a professional team (Clooney) drafts a strait-laced college sensation (John Krasinski from the US version of The Office), and finds his new coach falling for his fiancée (Renée Zellweger). Throwing the ball around each day on set has seen the actor lose around 20lbs (9kg). "I was playing football every day," he says. "I was a little thinner about three months ago. I almost weighed what I weighed in high school. If you play football every day, you just get your butt kicked."
"I'm working with Brad right now on this Coen brothers movie," he says, "which kills me, because he's going to steal the movie and I'm going to murder him! Honestly, though, I don't like the idea of competing; it's a weird thing, but you try not to compete in art. It always seems kind of strange. I could never do the things that Brad does. I mean, here's the guy that made Johnny Suede!"
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