this pgram in 1996. >> the things that i've done in my life, i tnk the thgs we do at pixar, these are team sports. they're not something one person does. you have to have an extraordinary team because these are... you're trying tolimb a mountain with a whole party of people. a lot of stuff to bring up the mountain. so one person can't do it. >> rose: george clooney, a new movie,nd steve jobs, an preciation when we contie. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is chare rose. >> rose: george clooney is here. he started as an actor but he became director and he became the complete film maker. he's a writer and a producer, a director an an actor. here's some of his work over the years. >> i'm seeing someone for the first time, you could be passing on the street and you look at each other for a few seconds and she's... there's kind of a recognition. you both know something. then the moment is goonened it's too late to do anything about it and you always remember it because there was there and you let it go and you think to yourself what if

of everything he did. if you look at his history, he viously was involved with pixar and movies and so forth. he cared a lot about how the average person, the average human around the world consumed things. was it beautiful, was it artistic, was it clever. if you look at the apple stores and the art there, over and over again he is a combination of technology and artists. an analogy would be from history would michelangelo who did both. there were very, few such people in history. >> rose: it is often said about him that he understood design better than anybody else. and in saying that, some people did not recognize that he understood techlogy. you are a technologist. you are formally a chief technology officer at sun miosystems and have d a distinguished career and came out of that kind of academic background. steve had a different academic background but most people in technology gave him credit for his understanding what about technology. >> steve was so brilliant that he was able to actually stay in those fields, that is what was so extraordinary. when he was running next, i and

and at pixar. his family truly was a loving close family and all four of his children and his wife and mona simpson, his sister. they're all there when he's in his last days. there is a closeness and a love that even though he worried. so when he told me he did it because his kids may not know him. that wasn't exactly satisfying. he said i want to do it because there will be a lot of books written by me and nobody will know the real, my side of the story. he said i want to do it because want to tell the tale. i think he wanted to do it because he knows history, he loves history and he thinks of himself as you said in the introduction of being part of a flow in history in which we build on the people before us and try to leave something for the people behind us. and he wanted people to know that. this is a question i never really had answered. even in the end he said i had trepidation but i'm really glad i did this. i kept saying why are you so glad you did it. he said well,'m really glad i did it. i couldn't figure it out. >> charlie: there was a moment in which you told me while y