He was conceived at 17 February Presently, Joseph Gordon-Levitt Age 40 years. He was brought up in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles.
His maternal granddad, Michael Gordon — , was a Hollywood movie director. Gordon-Levitt had a more established sibling, Dan, a picture taker and fire spinner who kicked the bucket in at 36 years old. Gordon-Levitt joined a melodic venue bunch at four years old and played the Scarecrow in a creation of The Wizard of Oz. At age six, he featured in a few made-for-TV films. In , he featured in the Disney film Angels in the Outfield as a vagrant who sees heavenly attendants.
I don't want to demonize anybody. But I do think that this notion that certain people are in a higher class than other people is unhealthy. We would be healthier as a people if we quit paying attention to that kind of bullshit and paid more attention to more pertinent things and more beautiful things.
But to be honest, I think about that all the time anyway. For a while, after [ 3rd Rock from the Sun ] no one wanted to hire me to do anything but a TV show, and I didn't really want to do that again. I'm grateful to a few filmmakers who took a chance on me, like Gregg Araki , who made Mysterious Skin , or Rian Johnson , who made Brick These are guys who were able to see that I could play these other roles. I really owe them all my subsequent opportunities. There is a quote that I think is attributed to Nelson Mandela.
He said that our light is more frightening than our darkness because if you look at the darkness within yourself, you can make excuses and shirk the responsibility of having to do anything, and say, 'Well, I'm not capable'.
But if you recognize the powerful light that is in yourself, that we all have within ourselves, that's scary because with that light comes a certain responsibility to live up to it and do something.
I love that quote. I think about it a lot. I'v always loved watching. I spent my whole life on sets. I started working when I was six. I always paid a lot of attention to what directors have done and what everyone else has done: what they are doing over here in the camera department or how they put together the set or what the script supervisor is up to, all these notes that they take, how is it, what is that. I really like being part of that team, being a part of something larger.
But I don't think it's just actors. I think everybody experiences this. You are talking to someone and you can tell they are not listening. You can tell they have already decided what you are and put you in a box with a label on it. This is what I was trying to make fun of.
And I do think that the media contributes to this. That's where I came to the idea of a relationship of a young man who watches too much pornography and a young woman ho watches too many romantic Hollywood movies They've both got these unrealistic expectations that they've learned from these kinds of media they consume, and it leads them to objectify people or not to connect.
I felt as though I'd transferred in for senior year and had a graduation celebration. You felt a huge sense of accomplishment and closure. Everyone on that movie did such good, dignified work. No one came to phone it in or just cash a check.
Had I said to my agents at the time that I wanted to do that stuff, they would have said, "You're making a ton of money doing TV, and that's what you're going to do. I didn't want to. I made a decision that I was going to do only work that inspired me creatively, not what was supposed to be good for my career.
It prepared me for what it is to work in pop culture. I've learned I have basically two different interactions with people. I love when someone approaches me and tells me they've seen me in something that made them feel something and that they connected to it.
That's part of why I do it. The other interaction is with people who really don't care about the movies or anything like that. They just sort of buy into the fame thing, and that feels icky to me. I'd say I was a lucky little kid, because unfortunately it's not normal to have extraordinarily good parents who love and support you. I played baseball, did gymnastics, took piano lessons and started acting as just another one of the things I did.
I wasn't pressured into it. But it was acting I loved. I had a really cool acting teacher who taught us how to become a character, to be realistic and feel those feelings, so I hated being expected to behave like an idiot in TV commercials because they seem to think that's what sells toys or whatever.
For a dog lover that was disappointing and weird. I find that humor is often times the best way to get at substantial themes and questions--but to do so in a really entertaining and engaging way.
Something everybody can connect to. Take Dr. And it's dealing with very serious issues. But it's hilarious. To me what's important is not the budget of the movie or where the money came from, whether it came from Warner Brothers or Voltage Pictures.
What's important for me is the intention of the filmmaker and the spirit on set and what the movie's about and why we are all making it. It's systematically ruining people's lives. The thing Chris [ Christopher Nolan ] has in common with all the filmmakers I've loved-- Rian Johnson , Steven Spielberg , Marc Webb --is that they have a thorough plan, but are also open to spontaneity.
That happens all day as a director. Someone tells you things have changed, and you have to answer it. Spielberg is one of the great imitated filmmakers. The important thing is the motivation of the filmmaker, and everyone who is working for the filmmaker.
You can find indie movies that are just sort of being derivative and trying to make a name for themselves, and you can also find studio movies with a real sincere heart. It's really more about the individual people than the budget or the corporate infrastructure. But I think Christopher Nolan very much thought of The Dark Knight Rises as a conclusion, and there's a theme that runs through all three of those movies that begins in the first movie, runs through the second movie, and it concludes in that moment where he says that Batman is more than a man, Batman is a symbol and so to have another man other than Bruce Wayne kind of becoming Batman at the end of that trilogy, I think that's the perfect ending to that story.
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