George Clooney irritated by Quentin Tarantino's claims he's 'not a ...

The Hollywood actor had his first significant big screen part when he starred opposite Tarantino in 1996 cult vampire film From Dusk Till Dawn, directed by Robert Rodriguez.

Clooney (63) was asked by GQ magazine about whether he should point out to Tarantino that he is available for casting.

He replied saying: “Listen, I did a movie with Quentin. He played my brother.”

Hollywood actor Brad Pitt, who was also being interviewed jumped in saying: “Oh, that’s right. He was pretty good in it too.”

However, Clooney said Tarantino’s acting was “okay”, before adding: “Quentin said some s**t about me recently, so I’m a little irritated by him.

“He did some interview where he was naming movie stars, and he was talking about you (Brad) and somebody else, and then this guy goes, ‘Well, what about George?’ He goes, ‘he’s not a movie star’.

“And then he literally said something like, ‘Name me a movie since the millennium’. That’s kind of my whole f***ing career.”

While regular Tarantino collaborator Pitt was laughing, Clooney said: “So now I’m like, all right, dude, f*** off. I don’t mind giving him shit. He gave me shit.

“But no, look, we’re really lucky we got to work with these great directors. The director and screenplay is what keeps you alive.

“And I learned that after doing some really bad films. You can’t make a good film out of a bad script. You can’t do it. You can make a bad film out of a good script. You can f*** it up.”

Tarantino directed Pitt in the films Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood and Inglourious Basterds, and also directed an ER episode featuring Clooney.

Elsewhere in the GQ interview, Pitt says he became aware of Clooney following the fatal crash involving Diana, the Princess of Wales in 1997, as he was outspoken against the paparazzi.

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Pitt said: “It’s really invasive to know people are out there and they’re hiding in the bushes. It’s really a sh**ty feeling.

“George got up and commented on that after Princess Diana. That’s when I saw ‘this guy’s got something the rest of us don’t’. Like, I saw the leader in that moment.”

Clooney said he and his Ocean’s Eleven co-star have been “friends for a long time”, and they check in on each other often.

He also said: “We deal in very serious subject matters, with very serious bad guys, and we don’t want to have photos of our kids out there.

“So we have to work hard at trying to stay private, and it’s tricky, as you can imagine. There’s times you will avoid going to the hospital with something that you would normally go to the hospital for...”

While Pitt agreed, Clooney added: “You will assess how bad something is before you go.”

They are set to star opposite each other in Wolfs, about fixers forced to work together.