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...Clooney: Steven called me up and said you should do this script. I read it, and I thought yes, it's a really good script but I was in the middle of doing Good Night and Good Luck so I wasn't anxious to jump and do anything else. I'm very careful to work with first time directors. I had worries. I thought this is a really tricky piece of material, really well written, but there's a lot of traps. It could end up being jokey, which it can't be, if you're not incredibly adept...
...have to surrender to it until you wake up one day and they're not doing their job. Tony never had that. There was never a second of that. The first day he's shooting with Robert Elswit, who is a cinematographer I did Good Night and Good Luck with, who I did Syriana with, who I trust with every bone of my body. Part of it is, you're economical. Tony shot about a nine hour day the first day. He knew exactly what he wanted. That makes everybody in the crew follow him. I do it. I learned...
...often speak about the element of luck, in interviews, I recall when you were honored with the American Cinamatheque award - you said John Wells who was sitting in the audience gave you a chance in ER, which had a great time slot, following Seinfeld. Otherwise who knows where you'd be. I know Paul Newman, Clint Eastwood often speak about the element of luck in this business, but surely it's not just luck...
...explain his victory in linear narratives. The morning of the primary, wearing the same green sweater and staying in the same room as in 2000, he explained his own strategy for the day: "There is no superstition I won't indulge," he said. "I believe in luck...
...hammer out an acceptable balance of American and Russian interests in the Caucasus. This let Saakashvili restore Ajaria, one of the breakaway and Moscow-oriented provinces, to Georgia's central authority, as Putin gave it up as a test of Saakashvili's intentions. At that, however, Saakashvili's luck seems to have run out: Russia firmly controls Abkhazia and South Ossetia - the other two breakaway republics, with no intentions of giving them back, and keeps turning up the heat on a Western-leaning Georgia, since September 2006, by severing mail and transportation links between the two countries, closing Russian markets...