Quotes from Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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.

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.

I just love to act. It's my favorite thing to do in the world, and what keeps it interesting, to me, is the creative challenge. So, different kinds of characters, that's what I just love to do.

I don't think action for action's sake is so fun, but when it helps tell the story, I love doing a good fight scene.

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

When I was Younger, I wanted to be something.Now, I just want to be younger.

I was a sort of serious little dude - snobby.

When I was 20, I went to Paris and tried to meet French women. It didn't work.

I think our culture is sick and tired of fluffy nonsense and people want something more sincere and heartfelt.

If the inspiration is genuine and it's coming from the right place, that's what I like and want to be a part of.

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 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.

We could have been the greatest love story ever told.If only you'd stayed in character.

I go through a lot of bad stuff, because most of the stuff that's written is pretty bad. But occasionally something comes along that's good, and I want to do it.

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.

It's less about what you do and more about who you are doing it with.

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.

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.

There's a long, long history of women suffering abuse, injustice, and not having the same opportunities as men, and I think that's been very detrimental to the human race as a whole.

One thing that stays pretty consistent for all my jobs is, I listen to a lot of music while I'm working.

Normally, it's difficult for me to watch a movie that I'm in.

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.

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.

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.