The chemistry and the comfort and trust between two people playing a love story l is key, and to have a friend that I could trust, and whose sensibilities I already understood, made it so much easier, and is a big part of why it all looks natural on screen.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Joseph Gordon-Levitt Quotes

I enjoy a challenge or provocation, something to think about, to talk about after it’s done.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I have an eclectic taste in stuff whether it be movies or music or books or food or anything. Variety is interesting.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

If you do or don’t like something it’s because of that thing and not because it has the right politics behind them or the right company or the right connections. It’s really just about the thing itself.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

My favorite kinds of movies are the ones that start a conversation.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I think violence begets violence. I don’t think a way to solve any sort of conflict is with violence because nothing ever ends up solved, that way.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

If you look at all the movies that have made tons of money, almost all of them are great movies. Even Titanic. I think Titanic is a great movie.

— 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.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Strong

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.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Fun

The traditions of Hollywood are grand and great and are going to survive forever, in a way. But they’re not going to be the only way for much longer. The technology is such now that you don’t have to have millions of dollars to make a movie. You can make one with a computer.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Hollywood can be an exclusive place. Who gets to be on TV, or who gets to make TV can be a small clique of an industry. There’s so many talented, skilled people, all over the world, that might not have the connections or the opportunities to work in TV.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Kids play pretend. I think that kids can be the best actors.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I want to keep working with people that care about what they’re doing. It seems obvious, but it’s not. It’s sometimes hard to keep on that track.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I think any time you set out to make something, anybody is going to be confronted by those voices in their head that say “You don’t need to do this. Someone else can do this better. You should probably just quit right now.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Don’t we want to escape our real world and go into something larger than that, simpler than that, more beautiful or darker?

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I think our culture is sick and tired of fluffy nonsense and people want something more sincere and heartfelt.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

If the inspiration is genuine and it’s coming from the right place, that’s what I like and want to be a part of.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The term ‘popular culture’ always used to mean what the people do – pop songs, folk songs, music in general used to live because people would sing these songs and tell these stories together. Then all of these new technologies came out and it became the work of professionals.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I do feel that even though I didn’t grow up being a big sci-fi fan or comic books or superhero fan, I felt myself definitely gravitate towards these movies that have a high concept and yet they’re giving you a moral dilemma within that.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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