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- George Clooney Says at 64 He Reflects on 'Everything' in His Life: 'Looking Forward Is Harder' (Exclusive)</p>
<p>Jack Smart, Scott HuverOctober 25, 2025 at 2:39 AM</p>
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<p>George Clooney at AFI Fest on Oct. 23 -</p>
<p>George Clooney leads Noah Baumbach's movie Jay Kelly, which premiered at Los Angeles' AFI Fest on Oct. 23</p>
<p>The actor tells PEOPLE that at age 64, he looks "back at everything, because the looking forward is harder"</p>
<p>Clooney's longtime friends ground him, he says: "They're always around when things and people are giving you too much credit"</p>
<p>George Clooney is in a reflective mood.</p>
<p>"I'm 64, so you look back at everything," says the actor-filmmaker at the Thursday, Oct. 23 AFI Fest premiere of his new movie Jay Kelly. "Because the looking forward," he adds, "is harder."</p>
<p>The year he's turned 64 has been a big one for Clooney, who made his Tony-nominated Broadway debut in hit play Good Night, and Good Luck in the spring, produced documentary Surviving Ohio State and celebrated his 11th wedding anniversary with wife Amal in September. He now leads Jay Kelly, from writer-director Noah Baumbach and co-writer Emily Mortimer, in theaters Nov. 14 and on Netflix Dec. 5.</p>
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<p>(Left-right:) Laura Dern, George Clooney and Adam Sandler in 'Jay Kelly'</p>
<p>"I'm in a pretty comfortable place in life," Clooney shares with PEOPLE at AFI Fest, where he appeared alongside costars Adam Sandler, Laura Dern and Riley Keough. "I like what I do for a living, I have great friends, I spend time with people that I love, and I've been able and lucky enough late in life to be able to spend time with my family."</p>
<p>He adds thoughtfully, "So, I'm not really looking back that much."</p>
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<p>(Left-right:) Noah Baumbach, George Clooney and Adam Sandler at AFI Fest on Oct. 23</p>
<p>In Jay Kelly's titular role, the Oscar winner does plenty of looking back during an impulsive train trip from France to Italy. The movie's tagline speaks to the character's soul-searching: "Everybody knows Jay Kelly, but Jay Kelly doesn't know himself."</p>
<p>For Clooney, it's his longtime friends that remind him who he is. "I slept on their couch when I was broke," he tells PEOPLE of his inner circle, some of which he's known for 40 years. "They're always around when things and people are giving you too much credit. They're the first people to remind you that they're full of crap."</p>
<p>He concludes, "It's helpful to have people that know you long before you were defined by something else, by movies you've done or work you've done and that kind of thing."</p>
<p>Jay Kelly is in theaters Nov. 14 and on Netflix Dec. 5.</p>
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