Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt (/ˈlɛvɪt/; born February 17, 1981) is an American actor, filmmaker, singer, and entrepreneur.
The truth of actually working on a movie set is that you're in the midst of a logistical nightmare. There are so many things going on. There are many factors that keep your ideal scenario from ever happening. And you're rarely going to get that.
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.
Your heart has a little empty corner. You won't even know I'm there -- I'll be very quiet.
Success is not important to me, nor are power or money. If the script feels good, then I'm in. It's that simple.
Everyone has a unique perspective and that's valid. Everyone's perspective is valid. That doesn't mean that everyone has the same degree of skill level as an entertainer, but skill isn't the only important thing. It's also what kind of perspective and feelings you're bringing to it.
The Internet is allowing us to get back to what's really more natural, which is that storytelling is a shared thing. It's our natural way to be communal.
I love her [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.
This movie [Don Jon] played at Sundance and South by Southwest and Berlin. And it just played - well. . . by the time it played at Toronto recently, it was already done. But getting to watch it with a thousand people is hugely informative.
Fame has always been a downside to acting for me. It gives me the creeps.
I like making little videos and little records. I've always loved video cameras and four-track cassette recorders, still cameras, anything.
Even when I was really young, I hated doing commercials, because I would say, "That's not real acting. " And it's not. It's embarrassing what they make little kids do in commercials.
There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.
A lot of the motivation for doing the 'Make 'Em Laugh' on SNL was because I had just finished shooting 'Inception,' where there were zero-gravity scenes and I got into really good shape and was training and did all these stunts. Coming off of that, that instilled me with the confidence to do 'Make 'Em Laugh. '
There's a long, long history of women suffering abuse, injustice, and not having the same opportunities as men, and I think that's been very detrimental to the human race as a whole.
I know other worlds exist. I can see them in my peripheral vision.
I think we all have a tendency to feel like, "Well, what can I do? I can't influence the government or politics in my country. "
Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.
Genres give a vocabulary. They give a frame of reference for the audience to enter into a movie. Then, once they have their footing, that's when you can start doing things that they don't expect.
I didn't want to just work within Hollywood when I started a production company. I wanted to be able to collaborate with great artists from all over the world.
[hitrecord. org is my] alternative outlet of where I get to be a little less professional and just freak out a little bit.