Joseph Gordon-Levitt Quotes

The truth is, an actor's performance is the result of work by a lot more people than just the actor. When you see that character portrayed up on screen, there is the work certainly of the actor, but there's the work of the editor, there's the work of what the camera was doing. What the music was doing, all of the above.

The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.

eating is the sleeping of being awake.

This movie [Don Jon] played at Sundance and South by Southwest and Berlin. And it just played - well...by the time it played at Toronto recently, it was already done. But getting to watch it with a thousand people is hugely informative.

I just love to act. It's my favorite thing to do in the world, and what keeps it interesting, to me, is the creative challenge. So, different kinds of characters, that's what I just love to do.

I collect flickering stars in old pickling jars, poking holes in the lids so they can breathe.

I know how to make an audience laugh, 'cause I grew up on Third Rock from the Sun, week after week in front of audiences, making them laugh.

I was such a big Dustin Hoffman fan when I was young.

The term 'popular culture' always used to mean what the people do - pop songs, folk songs, music in general used to live because people would sing these songs and tell these stories together. Then all of these new technologies came out and it became the work of professionals.

Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.

There's a long, long history of women suffering abuse, injustice, and not having the same opportunities as men, and I think that's been very detrimental to the human race as a whole.

So to compare your real life, or your partner or lover or whoever to a character in a movie, you're setting yourself up for disappointment. They don't map.

When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing

If I were to point to the person who's having the greatest impact... I'd point to Elon Musk.

I'm ready for another adventure now, take me far away please! Ok one more... But then you have to read to me!

A lot of the motivation for doing the 'Make 'Em Laugh' on SNL was because I had just finished shooting 'Inception,' where there were zero-gravity scenes and I got into really good shape and was training and did all these stunts. Coming off of that, that instilled me with the confidence to do 'Make 'Em Laugh.'

I have a really terrible sense of direction.

I didn't want to just work within Hollywood when I started a production company. I wanted to be able to collaborate with great artists from all over the world.

I know other worlds exist. I can see them in my peripheral vision.

Certainly the animation technology is growing like crazy. All media technology is.

I like making little videos and little records. I've always loved video cameras and four-track cassette recorders, still cameras, anything.

Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!

I think our culture is sick and tired of fluffy nonsense and people want something more sincere and heartfelt.

I just need some time away to remember why I stay.

I was studying for the SAT's and learning lines.

The element of surprise wasn't allowed near the Periodic Table.

I've been hearing it a lot, especially in the last few years; people will say things to me like "Well, if only I was like you in that movie," or "If only I could be with someone like you in that movie." And, you know, it's very flattering to hear that.

The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.

That you can be whatever you want to be, whoever you want to be, regardless of your gender.

It's HE-RO," the boy argued. "No," the girl insisted, "it's HER-O.

[hitrecord.org is my] alternative outlet of where I get to be a little less professional and just freak out a little bit.

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.

I've always found it sort of hilarious, and occasionally horrifying, how these images [in mass media] impact us, and especially when it comes to love and sex and relationships, I think we sometimes develop unrealistic expectations.

I'm definitely not a science nerd, I'll say that. That was not my forte at school.

His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.

This overwhelming desire to be close to you directly conflicts with my intense fear of people.

I think the way the media is going to work in the future is less something that the population consumes and more something that the population creates.

I think we all have a tendency to feel like, "Well, what can I do? I can't influence the government or politics in my country."

Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.

I do call myself a feminist. Absolutely!

It's less about what you do and more about who you are doing it with.

Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills.

I didn't really like doing commercials. You had to behave like you were on angel dust or something.

Darkness is a lot of what art is and certainly in our community a lot of it is people sort of wrestling with their demons.

The sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.

I'm tired of being tired of being tired of being.

While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.

I do feel that even though I didn't grow up being a big sci-fi fan or comic books or superhero fan, I felt myself definitely gravitate towards these movies that have a high concept and yet they're giving you a moral dilemma within that.