Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“I think that anybody who says 'This is the one way to go about being an actor' has probably not done a lot of professional work before.”

“I was studying for the SAT's and learning lines.”

“The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.”

“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.”

“My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.”

“I think some of the best actors ever were little kids.”

“The thing about Occupy is that the sentiment the movement embodies is timeless: Don't be greedy, share.”

“I didn't really like doing commercials.”

“Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills.”

“The only thing I want to do is stuff with people who care about what they're doing.”

“It's a pretty intuitive process, picking the projects that I want to get involved with.”

“When I started editing on my home computer, I said to myself, 'Well, I could be at home studying for a class or I could be at home editing a video.'”

“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.”

“Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.”

“There's something really appealing about the simplicity of black-and-white images.”

“I was just watching baby videos of me and I was obviously an exhibitionist.”

“There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.”