Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.