Joseph Gordon-Levitt Quotes

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

Real life is not like a movie. Even the best movies, the most rich, fleshed-out movies are not as rich and nuanced as detailed as real life or an actual human being.

That's what life is: repetitive routines. It's a matter of finding the balance between deviating from those patterns and knowing when to repeat them.

As an actor, it's always important to understand what the director is after. That, to me, is my job. When I'm acting, I like to ask a lot of questions and understand exactly why the director is doing what they're doing, so that I can provide him or her with the ingredients that they need to get the scene that they want. It's not to challenge them, in any way. It's just so that I can do my job best.

Media used to be one way. Everyone else in the world just had to listen. Now the internet is allowing what used to be a monologue to become a dialogue. I think that's healthy.

eating is the sleeping of being awake.

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.

You usually get one or the other, you get someone who knows how to tell a story but they don't necessarily know about light and camera and rhythm, or you get someone who can make beautiful images but they can't necessarily tell a great story. He does both and I think he's going to be one of the film-makers that our time is remembered for.

I think Hollywood, as it's been, will have to change because the model of Hollywood is "we'll make this content, and you guys buy it," but I don't think that's the future.

Well, look who I ran into," crowed Coincidence. "Please," flirted Fate, "this was meant to be.

I suppose the longer anyone spends on earth, the closer we all get to becoming superfluous characters.

If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.

Your kisses are snowflakes: each one is unique. They land on me, before they melt away and leave me cold.

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

When I was Younger, I wanted to be something.Now, I just want to be younger.

Here's the new art of the twenty-first century: the art of curating, the art of plucking all the good stuff from a superabundance of crap.

I enjoy a challenge or provocation, something to think about, to talk about after it's done.

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

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

It's worth paying attention to the roles that are sort of dictated to us and that we don't have to fit into those roles. We can be anybody we wanna be.

Singing doesn't have to mean that you sound like Stevie Wonder. I love to sing. I'm not the greatest singer in the world. But, a lot of my favorite singers aren't the greatest singers in the world.

If you know which way the current is going, you can use it to your advantage.

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

We can be anybody we wanna be.

The chemistry and the comfort and trust between two people playing a love story l is key, and to have a friend that I could trust, and whose sensibilities I already understood, made it so much easier, and is a big part of why it all looks natural on screen.