Joseph Gordon-Levitt Quotes (11 Quotes)

Personally, when I watch mysteries, I never follow all the plot twists the first time, whether it be Citizen Kane or Chinatown. I never guessed who done it because I'm too wrapped up in the characters and their feelings. Ultimate, what Brick is about is not the plot, but it's really a story about some characters. It's kind of a classic genre story, but the style nobody writes like that nowadays, nobody, and I remember just pacing around my apartment reading the words aloud, and being so pleased having these lyrical words inside my mouth.

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.

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.

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.

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

Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!

I was such a big Dustin Hoffman fan when I was young.

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

You could tell immediately that care and passion had gone into writing it.

If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.

Most scripts are bad. I read a lot of them.