#w

Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#celebrity #entertainment #fundamental #gossip #greed

When Delaware State University was founded in 1890, it was not by choice, but by social reality. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

#delaware #delaware state #delaware state university #founded #reality

My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#anything #blew #cocktail #dad #did

Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#already #another #around #collective #communal

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. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#artists #collaborate #company #great #hollywood

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. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#actually #allowing #become #century #dialogue

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. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#back #communal #get #internet #more

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. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#excuse #generally #gives #got #gratuitous

I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many and also I was kind of perplexed by the idea of how I was going to sing and play... because at that time, we hadn't really thought about asking someone else. ↗

— Kim Gordon

#also #asking #because #else #going

I mean, most of it is probably more obscure and just more noisy than either of those two bands, but Thurston has stuff all the time that he's involved with that is fairly obscure and experimental. ↗

— Kim Gordon

#either #experimental #fairly #i #involved