Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt is an American actor and filmmaker. As a child actor, he appeared in the films A River Runs Through It, Angels in the Outfield and 10 Things I Hate About You, and as Tommy Solomon in the TV series 3rd Rock from the Sun. He took a break from acting to study at Columbia University, but dropped out in 2004 to pursue acting again. He has since starred in 500 Days of Summer, Inception, Hesher, 50/50, Premium...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth17 February 1981
CountryUnited States of America
Nothing is ever finished. It's a funny thing. I actually think that's really the more natural way of stories or songs.
Making little videos that you know are going to be on tiny windows is a whole different thing. I don't know what it's going to lead to necessarily, but it's certainly fun.
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.
Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.
As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring.
Press is basically a created story. It's all just stories.
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.
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 form.
When I was 20, I went to Paris and tried to meet French women. It didn't work.
On some level, we as human beings can be who we want to be.
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.
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.
There's no royalty in America, so people deify actors.
I stopped getting nervous a long time ago, so any time I do get nervous, which is rare - about work, anyway - I always take that as a really good sign.