Joseph Gordon-Levitt quotes - page 2

Movies are different from real life. (Joseph Gordon-Levitt)
I would like to do a musical, if I could find a cool one. A song-and-dance role is closer to me personally than other characters I play. View quote
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There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more. View quote
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Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills. View quote
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Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes. View quote
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Sometimes what someone else does is really not what you expected them to do, which to be honest, sometimes doesn't work. View quote
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When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature. View quote
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I have a really terrible sense of direction. View quote
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When I started editing on my home computer, I said to myself, 'Well, I could be at home studying for a class or I could be at home editing a video.' View quote
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Every day I've got to be thankful that I am alive, and you never know - the cliche is, I guess, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow, so you'd better be at peace with whatever you got going at the moment. View quote
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Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb! (Joseph Gordon-Levitt)
I didn't really like doing commercials. View quote
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Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process. View quote
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If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks. View quote
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It's less about what you do and more about who you are doing it with. View quote
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Most scripts are bad. I read a lot of them. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I was such a big Dustin Hoffman fan when I was young. View quote
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I was just watching baby videos of me and I was obviously an exhibitionist. View quote
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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. (Joseph Gordon-Levitt)
The Internet is allowing us to get back to what's really more natural, which is that storytelling is a shared thing. It's our natural way to be communal. View quote
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I don't blame folks for not wanting to put me in their movies or whatever. I understand if their audiences had an association with me. View quote
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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.' View quote
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I think, honestly, that the word 'indie' is a false gimmick. 'Independent' used to mean a movie that was financed outside corporate Hollywood, but a lot of what gets called independent these days is totally produced within that system. And there's nothing wrong with that. View quote
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