Joseph Gordon-Levitt Quotes
born 1981 United States
Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt (born February 17, 1981, in Los Angeles, California) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and editor.
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The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.
Actually I've thanked you a lot of times so now I'm thanking you again.
My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.
I suppose the longer anyone spends on earth, the closer we all get to becoming superfluous characters.
It's fascinating to watch a show develop from a script to a 22-minute comedy. I try to learn as much, and ask as many questions, as I can without being annoying.
I didn’t really like doing commercials. You had to behave like you were on angel dust or something.
The cinematographer came up to me and said, 'You have to hit your mark exactly,'
[hitrecord.org is my] alternative outlet of where I get to be a little less professional and just freak out a little bit.
The cool thing about my character was that it’s not that digital. I get to put hours of prosthetic makeup on and see a different creature altogether. I’ve seen how he looks and it’s really cool.
Sundance means a lot to me. This is my third one. People that come here who love movies. Everyone has the attitude that movies aren't just disposable entertainment - they can really mean something. I love that, because that's the way I feel about films.
Most scripts are bad. I read a lot of them. Brick was a good script just to read. It was like, “Oh my God, these words feel so good in my mouth.” A lot of movies try to set up a world with cool sets, costumes, camera work. In Brick, the world is born from the words.
[Looper's] sort of a down-to-earth Blade Runner: it feels real. It's that style of sci-fi that could actually exist in 30 years.
I don't blame the people for the fact that so many movies are bad. I think there's a corrupt, perverted, lazy and sloppy attitude that's pervasive in the movie business. The whole entertainment business is kind of crumbling around us.
Wrote an adaptation for the Brothers Grimm's Little Red Riding Hood for 2011-10-31.
Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy. Celebrity doesn’t have anything to do with art or craft. It’s about being rich and thinking that you’re better than everybody else.