“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.” WayWantNeedsI CanImportantJobsActorsAsksCan DoChallengesActingSceneDirectorsIngredients Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“Kids play pretend. I think that kids can be the best actors.” ThinkingPlayKidsActorsBeing The Best Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“I think the reason I was able to get the jobs I did is because I worked for some very strong, self-possessed filmmakers who wouldn't listen to the executive-suited wisdom, and they believed in me from director to actor. Not from salesman to commodity.” ThinkingSelfReasonAbleJobsActorsStrongDirectorsFilmmakerExecutivesVery StrongPossessedCommoditySalesmanStrong Self Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“I love Kimberly Peirce. Incredibly intense is a good way of describing her. Brutally honest. Really sharp. She's a director for actors. That's what she's best at, sitting down with an actor and just getting to the heart of what a scene is. And getting to the heart of not just what the scene is and the character is, but what you are, and how to build that bridge between the "me" and the character, and those emotions.” WayHeartCharacterActorsEmotionHonestSceneDirectorsSittingIntenseBridgesDescribingGood WaySitting DownBrutally Honest Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“I don't have any training in dance. I can convince an audience that I know how to dance because I'm a convincing actor.” KnowsI CanActorsAudienceKnow HowTrainingConvinceConvincing Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“The director is the most important because, ultimately, as an actor, when you watch a movie, it looks like an actor is giving a performance, and they kind of are. But, what's actually happening is that an actor has given a bunch of ingredients over to a director, who then constructs a performance. That's movie-making.” GivingLooksKindImportantActorsGivenWatchesDirectorsHappeningsPerformancesBunchIngredientsConstructsMovie Making Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“I think some of the best actors ever were little kids.” ThinkingLittlesKidsActorsLittle Kid Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.” YearsUseNextActorsHundredYears AgoTheaterBrothelsUse To Be Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“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.” ActorsTeacherConceptsAstronaut Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks.” IfsThinkingWorldDoeJobsArtistActorsGoalHollywoodBunchFilmmakerDecentDisagreeHacksBad MoviesBest Artist Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“I'd been an actor my whole life, since I was a kid. And then, I quit for awhile and went to university. When I wanted to start acting again, I couldn't get a job, and that was really depressing. So, I realized, at that time, that I have to take responsibility for my own creativity.” WholeKidsWantedJobsActorsMy OwnActingResponsibilityCreativityUniversityI RealizedWhole LifeQuittingDepressingTaking ResponsibilityI QuitReally Depressing Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“I've always paid a lot of attention to the way that different kinds of media affect how we see the world, probably because I've been an actor since I was a little kid.” WorldWayKindLittlesDifferentKidsActorsAttentionMediaPaidDifferent KindsLittle Kid Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“The truth is, an actor's performance is the result of work by a lot more people than just the actor. When you see that character portrayed up on screen, there is the work certainly of the actor, but there's the work of the editor, there's the work of what the camera was doing. What the music was doing, all of the above.” PeopleCharacterActorsResultsTruth IsPerformancesCamerasScreensEditors Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.” ActorsTeacherAstronaut Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
