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Making checklists of things you're looking for in a person is the numero uno thing you can do to guarantee you'll be alone forever.

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: February 17
Actor
Character Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
LA
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Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt
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Why am I doing the work I'm doing? Why am I friends with this person? Am I living the best life I possibly can? Questions are often looked upon as questions of doubt but I don't see it that way at all. I question things to stay present, to make sure I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing.
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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.
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Most of what Hollywood puts out is crap anyway.
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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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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.'
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For context, the budget of Don Jon is about half the budget of (500) Days of Summer. And (500) Days of Summer is about a third of the budget of the lowest-budget movies produced at a major studio.
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Let's face it, most pretty girls aren't funny.
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Certainly the animation technology is growing like crazy. All media technology is.
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Real life is not like a movie. Even the best movies, the most rich, fleshed-out movies are not as rich and nuanced as detailed as real life or an actual human being.
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Success is not important to me, nor are power or money. If the script feels good, then I'm in. It's that simple.
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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.
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I've always paid a lot of attention to the way that different kinds of media affect how we see the world, probably because I've been an actor since I was a little kid.
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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.
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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.
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The sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.
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Your heart has a little empty corner. You won't even know I'm there -- I'll be very quiet.
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There seems to be a notion in Hollywood that if you want to make money, you have to sacrifice doing good work with integrity. And I think that's bullshit. I think that's an excuse, and it's what people say who are scared that they can't do good work.
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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.
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Everyone has the attitude that movies aren't just disposable entertainment - they can really mean something. I love that, because that's the way I feel about films.
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If I were to point to the person who's having the greatest impact... I'd point to Elon Musk.
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