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«The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative».
«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».
«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».
«As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring».
«Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy».
«Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else».
«If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone».
«Sometimes what someone else does is really not what you expected them to do, which to be honest, sometimes doesn't work».
[Riguardo Occupy Wall Steet] «The thing about Occupy is that the sentiment the movement embodies is timeless: Don't be greedy, share».
«There's something really appealing about the simplicity of black-and-white images».
«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».
«A lot of people, most people who are working, they do it for money. And I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that. It so happens that I made a lot of money already, so I don't have to worry that much about it. I wouldn't fault anybody for doing it for the money, but it doesn't interest me right now».
[Riguardo la sua esibizione al Saturday Night Live] «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.'».
«Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels».
«Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills».
«Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something».
«Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!».
«I didn't really like doing commercials».
«I don't blame folks for not wanting to put me in their movies or whatever. I understand if their audiences had an association with me».
[Riguardo hitRECord] «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».
«I have a really terrible sense of direction».
«I like making little videos and little records. I've always loved video cameras and four-track cassette recorders, still cameras, anything».
«I just like to do work that inspires me, and I don't pay any attention to whether it's a high- or low-budget movie».
«I mean, movies in general tend to sort of portray time, space and identity as these very solid things. Time moves forward. Space is what it is. You are you, and you're always you».
«I never intended to only do dark, serious things».
«I stopped getting nervous a long time ago, so any time I do get nervous, which is rare - about work, anyway - I always take that as a really good sign».
«When I was Younger, I wanted to be something.Now, I just want to be younger».
«I really try to make movies as good as I can, and create a convincing character who means something to me and maybe other people. The notion of celebrity is kind of saying, ‘All that doesn’t matter. We’re not interested in the story you’re trying to tell. What interests us is you, your name, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, quote-unquote, and who you’re dating or what you’re eating or…’ And to me, that’s like, Wow, so you’re saying what I love and spend so much time caring about is irrelevant and doesn’t matter? Fuck you, too».
«I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So I don’t think being sad is to be avoided. It’s apathy and boredom you want to avoid. But feeling anything is good, I think. Maybe that’s sadistic of me».
«I think some of the best actors ever were little kids».
«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 think the dual existence thing is a regular pastime for all human beings, and for that matter anything in this universe».
«I was a sort of serious little dude - snobby».
«I was just watching baby videos of me and I was obviously an exhibitionist».
«I think, honestly, that the word 'indie' is a false gimmick. 'Independent' used to mean a movie that was financed outside corporate Hollywood, but a lot of what gets called independent these days is totally produced within that system. And there's nothing wrong with that».
«I would like to do a musical, if I could find a cool one. A song-and-dance role is closer to me personally than other characters I play».
«If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks».
«It's a pretty intuitive process, picking the projects that I want to get involved with».
«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».
«It's less about what you do and more about who you are doing it with».
«Movies are different from real life».
«Most scripts are bad. I read a lot of them. "Brick" was a good script just to read. It was like, `Oh my God, these words feel so good in my mouth.` A lot of movies try to set up a world with cool sets, costumes, camera work. In "Brick," the world is born from the words».
«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».
«My personal belief is that everything is always happening all at once».
«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».
«Normally, it's difficult for me to watch a movie that I'm in».
«On some level, we as human beings can be who we want to be».
«One thing that stays pretty consistent for all my jobs is, I listen to a lot of music while I'm working».
«Press is basically a created story. It's all just stories».
«Quality isn't about where the money came from or which company gets to put their name on the thing. What matters is who made the movie and why they made it».
«Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process».
«That is very different from how it used to be in the 20th century. Media was very one way. There's a small little industry. It broadcasted its message and 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 and actually restoring a more natural way».
«The career stuff is for business people».
«The Internet is allowing us to get back to what's really more natural, which is that storytelling is a shared thing. It's our natural way to be communal».
«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».
«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».
«There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more».
«To me, a sex scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous scene that doesn't serve the story but gives a kind of excuse - we've got these two actors, we want to see them naked, so let's bring in the music and the soft light».
«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.'».
«When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature».
«When I was 20, I went to Paris and tried to meet French women. It didn't work».
«When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing. When I moved to New York, I started to realize that I wanted people to see the stuff that I was doing, and I wanted it to mean something to them».
«When I'm on set, I do whatever I can to find my focus».
«While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors».
«The Lookout was by far the hardest thing I`ve ever done. Partially because both Brick and Mysterious Skin were four to five week shoots, and The Lookout was nine or 10. So there`s the marathon aspect, as well as the fact that Chris Pratt is having a harder go of it than either of the other two characters ever did. You know, waking up in the morning is difficult for him. Putting a sentence together is difficult for him. Getting dressed properly, driving a car, all these things. He can do them fine, but it`s just much harder than it is for a normal person, so I had to try to make it hard for myself somehow. So it was challenging».
«One of the hardest things about playing a soldier is kinda acknowledging that I`ve never done, and might never do anything that brave».
«My advantage is that I know the system. Big budgets don`t impress me. They might`ve done when I was 13, but I`ve been working since I was 6».
«Success is not important to me, nor are power or money. If the script feels good, then I`m in. It`s that simple».
«I don`t blame the people for the fact that so many movies are bad. I think there`s a corrupt, perverted, lazy and sloppy attitude that`s pervasive in the movie business. The whole entertainment business is kind of crumbling around us».
[Riguardo Mysterious SKin] «At the heart of the movie, to me, is there`s these two characters that can have one horrible, traumatic experience but react to it in opposite ways and it shows how different people see things differently. Well, today, there`s a president in my country that doesn`t understand that and he thinks that if you don`t see it exactly his way, you`re wrong and evil. And that`s not the way the world works. There can be one event but everybody who sees it sees it a little different or sees it a lot different and that`s what the movies about and that`s what damn "Dubya" needs to understand. Or let him not understand it and go about his ways and go back to his ranch and never bother us again».
«Actors didn`t use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels. Actors were poor. Celebrities used to be kings and queens. Then the United States abolished monarchy, and now there`s this coming together of show business and celebrity. I don`t think it`s healthy. I don`t want to sound self-important, but all these celebrity shows and magazines - it comes from us, from Hollywood, from our country. We`re the ones creating it. And I think it works in close step with a lot of other bad things that are happening in the world. It promotes greed, it promotes being selfish and it promotes this ladder, where you`re a better person if you have more money. It`s not at all about the work itself. Don`t get me wrong. I love movies. But this myth of celebrity has nothing to do with movies».
[In un video su hitRECord] «I just want to say thank you again to all you crazy motherfuckers who came out for hitRECord on Halloween - give me your records! I want to see your videos, I want to see your photos, and even more importantly, I love this stuff, remix it!».
[In un video su hitRECord] «Actually I've thanked you a lot of times so now I'm thanking you again».
«I guess I have an eclectic taste [riguardo (500) Days of Summer, G.I. Joe, e Uncertainty tutti nello stesso anno], I don't just like one thing. Contrast is key. What do they say? Variety is the spice of life. My favorite actors are the chameleons, guys like Daniel Day-Lewis, Billy Bob Thornton, Meryl Streep, people who are always different».
«Sundance means a lot to me. This is my third one. People that come here who love movies. 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».
[sul suo ruolo in G. I. Joe] «The cool thing about my character was that it’s not that digital. I get to put hours of prosthetic makeup on and see a different creature altogether. I’ve seen how he looks and it’s really cool».(Joseph Gordon-Levitt.)
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questo dolcetto non poteva mancare ♥ . -
gøsling.
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ehggià ♥. -
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adoro le sue smorfie :') .
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