Joseph Gordon-Levitt

While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.

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

To be honest, I sort of feel like 'movie actor' isn't of this time. I love it. But it's a 20th-century art form.

Movies are different from real life.

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.

Quality isn't about where the money came from or which company gets to put their name on the thing. What matters is who made the movie and why they made it.

Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills.

There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.

As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring.

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.'

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.

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.