285 Quotes by Joseph Gordon-Levitt

When I was a teenager, if anyone recognized me for anything I did, it would ruin my day. I couldn’t handle it. It was some sort of neurotic phobia. I guess I was paranoid that people would treat me differently, or in an unfair way, because of my job.

I think Hollywood, as it’s been, will have to change because the model of Hollywood is “we’ll make this content, and you guys buy it,” but I don’t think that’s the future.

The doctor’s wife ate two apples a day, just to be safe. But her husband kept coming home.

I have a pretty eclectic taste in the movies that I like to watch, and also in the movies that I’m inspired to work on.

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.

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.

The spiral in a snail’s shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it’s also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It’s the same ratio that you’ll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.

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.

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.