American - Actor | February 17, 1981 -
Most scripts are bad. I read a lot of them.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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I was such a big Dustin Hoffman fan when I was young.
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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!
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If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.
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I was just watching baby videos of me and I was obviously an exhibitionist.
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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. When I moved to New York, I started to realize that I wanted people to see the stuff that I was doing, and I wanted it to mean something to them.
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Ummm... well, the only thing I want to do is stuff with people who care about what they're doing, which sounds obvious, but it's really not.
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Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.
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To me, a sex scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous scene that doesn't serve the story but gives a kind of excuse - we've got these two actors, we want to see them naked, so let's bring in the music and the soft light.
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The only thing I want to do is stuff with people who care about what they're doing.
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The movies I watch and the music I listen to and the books I read - those are important to me. It's very important to me, and I don't know what I would do without those things.
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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.
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