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Most scripts are bad. I read a lot of them.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: February 17
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Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt
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What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others.
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I think the way the media is going to work in the future is less something that the population consumes and more something that the population creates.
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You're gone. No mailing address. But I send you letters anyway.
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Media used to be one way. Everyone else in the world just had to listen. Now the internet is allowing what used to be a monologue to become a dialogue. I think that's healthy.
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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.
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Darkness is a lot of what art is and certainly in our community a lot of it is people sort of wrestling with their demons.
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