#movie

I don't want to compare myself to him - I don't want people to see me as this great genius - but when I see Charlie Chaplin's movies there is a combination of drama, naivety and social meaning that I can see in myself, at a different level. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#charlie #combination #compare #different #different level

Movies are different from real life. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#life #movies #real #real life

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. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#attention #i #inspires #just #like

I think, honestly, that the word 'indie' is a false gimmick. 'Independent' used to mean a movie that was financed outside corporate Hollywood, but a lot of what gets called independent these days is totally produced within that system. And there's nothing wrong with that. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#corporate #days #false #financed #gets

The movies I watch and the music I listen to and the books I read - those are important to me. It's very important to me, and I don't know what I would do without those things. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#i #important #know #listen #me

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

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#dumb #especially #hollywood #idea #movies

I don't blame folks for not wanting to put me in their movies or whatever. I understand if their audiences had an association with me. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#audiences #blame #folks #had #i

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. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#forward #general #i #identity #mean

If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#artists #bad #best #bunch #create

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. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#came #company #gets #made #matters