My favorite kinds of movies are the ones that start a conversation. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To be honest, I sort of feel like 'movie actor' isn't of this time. I love it. But it's a 20th-century art… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
I was in a horror movie and a teen comedy...I was the first kill in Halloween H20. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
I just like to do work that inspires me, and I don't pay any attention to whether it's a high- or low-budget… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
I have a pretty eclectic taste in the movies that I like to watch, and also in the movies that I'm inspired… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
We couldn't afford test screenings. This is a relatively low-budget movie [Don Jon]. But what we did have was the festival circuit. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
A lot of movies try to set up a world with cool sets, costumes, camera work. In Brick, the world is born… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
So to compare your real life, or your partner or lover or whoever to a character in a movie, you're setting yourself… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
I don't blame folks for not wanting to put me in their movies or whatever. I understand if their audiences had an… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
This movie [Don Jon] played at Sundance and South by Southwest and Berlin. And it just played - well...by the time it… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
Everyone has the attitude that movies aren't just disposable entertainment - they can really mean something. I love that, because that's the… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
Genres give a vocabulary. They give a frame of reference for the audience to enter into a movie. Then, once they have… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
The truth of actually working on a movie set is that you're in the midst of a logistical nightmare. There are so… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
Real life is not like a movie. Even the best movies, the most rich, fleshed-out movies are not as rich and nuanced… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
I've been hearing it a lot, especially in the last few years; people will say things to me like "Well, if only… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
The traditions of Hollywood are grand and great and are going to survive forever, in a way. But they're not going to… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
The director is the most important because, ultimately, as an actor, when you watch a movie, it looks like an actor is… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
If you look at all the movies that have made tons of money, almost all of them are great movies. Even Titanic.… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
Quality isn't about where the money came from or which company gets to put their name on the thing. What matters is… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
I mean, movies in general tend to sort of portray time, space and identity as these very solid things. Time moves forward.… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
Normally, it's difficult for me to watch a movie that I'm in. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
To me, a sex scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous scene that doesn't serve the story but gives a kind… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
I think, honestly, that the word 'indie' is a false gimmick. 'Independent' used to mean a movie that was financed outside corporate Hollywood, but… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
I like making little videos and little records. I've always loved video cameras and four-track cassette recorders, still cameras, anything. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
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… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
That is very different from how it used to be in the 20th century. Media was very one way. There's a small little industry.… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
I knew that if I wanted to really maintain control, I would have to keep the budget down. And I did. And I feel… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
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… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
I don't buy into the glory days thing. I think every time has its great things to it. The '60s were such a glorious… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
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![“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.” quote by Joseph Gordon-Levitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/965/joseph-gordon-levitt-1583_berlin_this-movie-don-jon-played-at-sundance-an_652277.jpg)
![“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[Mark Webb] does both and I think he's going to be…” quote by Joseph Gordon-Levitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/48b/joseph-gordon-levitt-1583_beautiful_you-usually-get-one-or-the-other-you-get_44077.jpg)
![“I knew that if I wanted to really maintain control, I would have to keep the budget down. And I did. And I feel very fortunate that - y'know, this movie [Don Jon] - frame for frame, line for line - is exactly what I wanted it to be. Nobody made me change anything.” quote by Joseph Gordon-Levitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e21/joseph-gordon-levitt-1583_budgets_i-knew-that-if-i-wanted-to-really-mainta_58953.jpg)
