Joseph Gordon-Levitt Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• I love Kimberly Peirce. Incredibly intense is a good way of describing her. Brutally honest. Really sharp. She's a director for actors. That's what she's best at, sitting down with an actor and just getting to the heart of what a scene is. And getting to the heart of not just what the scene is and the character is, but what you are, and how to build that bridge between the "me" and the character, and those emotions.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Heart, Character, Bridges

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 28, 2007.

• 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.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Character, Makeup, Different

  "'G.I. Joe' Star Joseph Gordon-Levitt Undergoes Transformation For Cobra Commander Role". www.mtv.com. September 10, 2008.

• I suppose the longer anyone spends on earth, the closer we all get to becoming superfluous characters.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Character, Earth, Becoming

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. September 18, 2013.

• 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.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Character, People, Plot

  "Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. September 28, 2011.

• 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.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Character, Interesting, Creative

  Interview with David Germain, www.cleveland.com. January 27, 2010.

• But I would encourage anyone who has a crush on my character to watch it again and examine how selfish he is.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Crush, Selfish, Character

  "20Q: Joseph Gordon-Levitt". Interview with Stephen Rebello, www.playboy.com. August 15, 2012.

• I find the voice is what I look for first and foremost with just about every character I play.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Character, Play, Voice

  "Comic-Con: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt, and Director Rian Johnson Talk LOOPER and Turning Gordon-Levitt Into Bruce Willis with Prosthetics". Press conference, collider.com. July 14, 2012.

• He [Mark Webb] is very savvy, technically, he's shot so many videos, he knows how to get what he wants. The surprise, of course, is that he's also an extremely humanistic story-teller. He's obsessed with story and character, and not just making it look right, which is a double-thred that's rare in directors.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Character, Want, Directors

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• So to compare your real life, or your partner or lover or whoever to a character in a movie, you're setting yourself up for disappointment. They don't map.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Disappointment, Real, Character

  Source: www.grouchoreviews.com

• Every director is different. And all the movies are very different, and the characters are very different.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Character, Directors, Different

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 28, 2007.

• The truth is, an actor's performance is the result of work by a lot more people than just the actor. When you see that character portrayed up on screen, there is the work certainly of the actor, but there's the work of the editor, there's the work of what the camera was doing. What the music was doing, all of the above.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Character, Editors, People

  Source: www.washingtoncitypaper.com

• When I'm on set, I do whatever I can to find my focus. One thing that stays pretty consistent for all my jobs is, I listen to a lot of music while I'm working. Because when there's all this stuff going on, for me to be able to put on headphones and listen to music helps me keep my focus,. A big part of creating a character for me is finding the general palette for what kind of music I'm going to be listening to.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Jobs, Character, Creating

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 28, 2007.

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