Actor George Clooney warned about political divisions Wednesday at the Venice Film Festival, lamenting that leaders are “telling us to fear one another.”
Clooney delivered his speech, which did not name any specific public figures, when accepting the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.
While Clooney acknowledged that movies “don’t stop wars,” he emphasized that they increase empathy.
“Stories are always dangerous to people who peddle in fear,” he said. “The people who are afraid of books and music and stories are never the heroes in history.”
“So yes, movies don’t stop wars, they don’t lower inflation, they don’t fix elections. But they do do…
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