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The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.

The media's about to become a lot more effective.

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.

From Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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.

From Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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.

From Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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.

From Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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

From Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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.

From Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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.

From Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I like making little videos and little records. I've always loved video cameras and four-track cassette recorders, still cameras, anything.

From Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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