Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt (/ˈlɛvɪt/; born February 17, 1981) is an American actor, filmmaker, singer, and entrepreneur.
I don't think you necessarily have to be the most perfected performer, in order to express your feelings. It's really those feelings that an audience connects with, I think, at least as much as perfected technical skill.
We can be anybody we wanna be.
I have a really terrible sense of direction.
Real life is not as simple as it is on a screen. I think real life is actually a lot more beautiful.
What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others.
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.
It's nice to not feel like you're just re-enacting a preconceived moment, but there's room for an organic feeling to develop while the camera is rolling. Even amidst these enormous technical productions, Chris [ Nolan] always prioritized making sure that sort of spontaneous and organic feeling could happen at the moment.
A lot of people, most people who are working, they do it for money. And I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that. It so happens that I made a lot of money already, so I don't have to worry that much about it. I wouldn't fault anybody for doing it for the money, but it doesn't interest me right now.
My favorite kinds of movies are the ones that start a conversation.
We’re all beautiful. We all deserve attention.
Your heart has a little empty corner. You won't even know I'm there -- I'll be very quiet.
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.
Movies are different from real life.
I was studying for the SAT's and learning lines.
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.
Most of what Hollywood puts out is crap anyway.
This overwhelming desire to be close to you directly conflicts with my intense fear of people.
eating is the sleeping of being awake.
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.
A man touched me: his hand. . . my thigh. I touched him too: my fist. . . his jaw.