Quotes from Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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.
— 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.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I was a sort of serious little dude - snobby.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Quality isn't about where the money came from or which company gets to put their name on the thing. What matters is who made the movie and why they made it.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I have a pretty eclectic taste in the movies that I like to watch, and also in the movies that I'm inspired to work on.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I don't think action for action's sake is so fun, but when it helps tell the story, I love doing a good fight scene.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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