George Clooney is a little irritated with Quentin Tarantino.

The veteran actor is taking issue with the famed directors apparent comments about his celebrity status.

In a new GQ cover interview, along with his upcoming Wolfs co-star Brad Pitt, the subject of Tarantino came up and Clooney said, Quentin said some shit about me recently, so Im a little irritated by him. He did some interview where he was naming movie stars, and he was talking about [Pitt] and somebody else, and then this [interviewer] goes, Well, what about George? He goes, Hes not a movie star. And then he literally said something like, Name me a movie since the millennium.' Continued Clooney: And I was like, Since the millennium?Thats kind of my whole fucking career.

At this, Pitt laughs.

So now Im like, all right, dude, fuck off. I dont mind giving him shit. He gave me shit. But no, look, were really lucky we got to work with these great directors. Director and screenplay is what keeps you alive.

Technically speaking, Clooneys career stretches back to the early 1980s. But its also true that hes had considerable success since the turn of the century in movies ranging from 2000s The Perfect Storm to the Oceans Eleven trilogy (which started in 2001) to 2013s Gravity to 2016s Hail Caesar!

Clooney co-starred with Tarantino in the directors 1996 crime drama-horror mashup From Dusk Till Dawn, while Pitt has appeared in a couple Tarantino films, including 2019s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Pitt said that Tarantino was pretty good as an actor in Dusk, to which Clooney countered, He was okay in it. Pitt then added, Theres a scene, Im blanking on it. But hes really good.

It also wasnt immediately apparent which Tarantino interview Clooney was quoting, though the director has made headlines from calling Marvel actors not real movie stars in the past, arguing that their comic book icons are the real stars of those films.

Speaking of which, Clooney also noted his 1997 movie Batman Robin didnt work.

When I first got to the place where I could pick a movie, I took everything that came my way, he said. Because I didnt understand that I was going to be held responsible for the movie. So I get offeredBatman Robin,I call my friends like, Im going to be Batman! You dont really think it through. And then after I did that for three films, where they didnt really work, I was like: Oh, Im going to be held responsible. I need to go back to: good script, good director, if Im allowed to pick. And that means you have to take money out of the issue. Because remember: When youre first famous, when somebody offers you a lot of money, youre like, Fuck, Ive never been offeredmoneybefore. Ive never been offered anything.'