Quotes from Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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

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.

What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others.

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.

Sometimes what someone else does is really not what you expected them to do, which to be honest, sometimes doesn't work.

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.

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

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 think the way the media is going to work in the future is less something that the population consumes and more something that the population creates.

I have a pretty eclectic taste in the movies that I like to watch, and also in the movies that I'm inspired to work on.

I was studying for the SAT's and learning lines.

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.'

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.'

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

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

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.

I think some of the best actors ever were little kids.

I have an eclectic taste in stuff whether it be movies or music or books or food or anything. Variety is interesting.

Let's face it, most pretty girls aren't funny.

I think Hollywood, as it's been, will have to change because the model of Hollywood is "we'll make this content, and you guys buy it," but I don't think that's the future.