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Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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“Yeah, so I've had a certain osmosis, I guess. And look, I probably learned as much from the bad scripts as from the good scripts. And I've certainly read way more bad scripts than good scripts. And I also have, for me, writing is a lot like acting. When you're acting, you spend a lot of time with your script. When I'm writing a scene, I'm treating it much like I do when I'm preparing to act in that scene. And then I can read it and be like, no, that doesn't feel good. And I've had so many experiences as an actor where you're sitting there with a scene and being like, I just wish that this line was phrased a little differently. And when you're the writer, you can just rewrite it, which is nice. Yeah, absolutely.”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Was I thought smart in a lot of ways, but also with all due respect to the smart guy who wrote it, sort of cynical and off-putting in times. Yeah, I don't know. I don't want to say that I don't recommend people read those books because. There are probably some really good thoughts in those screenwriting books that sort of talk about conventional structure and the three acts and things like that. I've sort of I guess got to take in a way a shortcut in a way a long cut because. I've just been around it and I've read so many scripts over the years. I mean, my mom was reading me scripts before I could read.”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I never read a book about screenwriting. I know they're out there. I've glanced at some. I skimmed through one recently. Called Save the Cat”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Kind of the story of my life right there. There's no one you can really turn to to fight that voice. You have to just. In those moments, you just kind of have to ignore it, or if the voice is really getting the better you I found, I would just have to be like, okay, I'm gonna have to stop for now.”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, well, writing's really hard. It's super fun. I love writing, but it's hard, I think, partially because it's more of a loner sport. At least that one was for me. I wrote it myself. And I had a great time doing it. Think probably if you ask what's the hardest part, it's those moments where I'll be sitting there having spent who knows how many hours on this over the last X years. Trying to make this script something that I think is good and hearing a voice in my head saying this has all been a waste of time. You should probably just stop now. That kind of thing.”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“How people objectify other people. And I guess without trying to sound like I'm complaining, I have felt kind of objectified myself throughout my life. Because of being in the media And besides that, sort of feeling uncomfortable for me, and there were times in my life when it felt really uncomfortable. I had real anxiety about it when I was younger and I've gotten more comfortable with it now. But besides that, I also think that it's not really good for the objectifier either for people out there who watch these faces on screens. And see them as these, I don't know, almost deified special. Entities that are more important or more attractive or more worthy of celebration than the watcher. I think that's. A really prominent idea in our culture and one that deserves to be attacked and made fun of.”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, Don John's. Sort of off take on the old Don Juan story, who's a mythical womanizer. And it's about a guy who's addicted to pornography. And who I think more than just being addicted pornography sort of objectifies everything in his life, not only women, but his friends, his family His own body, his car, his God. He treats everything as sort of an object much the same way as he treats the women that he jerks off to when he's watching porn. And has to sort of have a self realization about that. It's sort of a coming of age story, a coming of age story. And why? Why did I want to tell that story? Well, it's in certain ways a story about media, which is something that I've focused on my whole life. And like I was saying a story about”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Perfectly good reason. An aesthetic thing. My mom studied French, so I'd always kind of had that in the air, a sort of a Francophilia. And she lived in France for a number of years and spoke about it really romantically. That's one of my favorite moments in life is walking through Paris with my mom and her being like, this is where I worked when I was younger than you are now. I loved it here. There was a real completion there to getting to do that with her. Nowadays, there's probably other languages that would be much more practical to learn. And not just nowadays back then too. But yeah, aesthetically, I just always found it really appealing and I liked it.”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was learning, just sitting in the class and listening to the teacher speak French or trying to read something in French kind of no matter what the subject matter, no matter what the paper was supposed to be on or what the test was or anything, just the fact that it was in another language meant I was learning and I had always wanted to speak another language. I felt sort of inferior for not speaking more than one language. And I got to the point where, I mean, I wouldn't say that I'm like a fluent French speaker, like someone who lives there. But, you know, I can have a conversation with someone in French. I can read the newspaper slowly. And it really taught me a lot about even about English, just about and about language to kind of have more than one in my head.”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I felt like that's what I had been trying to get away from, high school, where you're having to prove to someone that you read something and it's kind of condescending and not very enriching. And I thought college was going to be something more than that. And maybe it would have been if I were using it right, or maybe it would have been if I had stuck around and declared a major. But what I really did like was studying in French, because then no matter what.”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I was about halfway through a bachelor's when I decided to drop out. So choosing a major was looming, but I never actually had to do it. But I was It would have been a French major because. By that time, I was taking my classes in French because I, frankly, and this isn't any sort of slight Columbia University where I went, I just found myself, I think, underwhelmed in the academic setting. There were some classes that really interested me, but one thing that really bothered me was. You were supposed to read so much that there was no way you could read it thoroughly.”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But this is really the suburbs. And I moved to New York City, like Manhattan Columbia University is where I went. Oh, I mean, I still miss New York. I don't live there anymore, but New York City's just incredible. Walking around, you know, in LA, you don't walk so much. You mostly drive places. And my favorite thing, still my favorite thing to do in New York is not any particular restaurant or bar or site or anything. It's just walk out your door wherever you are and walk and see what you see and see who you see. And I get so much inspiration from doing that whenever I go to that city.”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I grew up in the San Fernando Valley, Sherman Oaks, which is a suburb in LA, although all of LA is sort of a suburb because it doesn't have a center, like a conventional city.”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's what I did. And I think it is one of the better decisions I've ever made both to quit for a while and also to move away from home. Not everybody can afford to move away from home, but luckily I was able to. And living in a new city, while on the one hand really challenging huge growth spurt just for who you are and what you think and what you know. I loved moving away.”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was around all my friends who were, some of them were going to college, some of them weren't, but they all were finishing high school and starting off on life and figuring out what they wanted to do or what they wanted to be. And I felt like, wait, I shouldn't just. Let my six year old self make the decision for me of what I'm gonna be for my whole life. I should be also making that decision, not just six-year-old me. And so I thought it'd be right to quit acting for a while and just go to school.”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That may And, well, I'd always wanted to go to college. My dad actually dropped out of college, but my mom really. Spoke very highly of university and even got her master's. And, uh, I was just always really looking forward to that. I'd always liked school. I was always sort of studious. I liked learning and always frankly found elementary school, junior high, high school a little. Lacking in what I was really wanting, and I was hoping that once I got to college, then I would like be in these classes that were just blowing my mind all the time. And so, yeah, and I think also besides the academics, I wanted to not know my future. I always.”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Made that decision? Well, I mean, I've been acting since I was six years old and was lucky enough to. Do it pretty consistently throughout my childhood and adolescence”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I was supposed to be writing a paper for college, and all I wanted to do was edit. And I was like, I think I have to drop out of school.”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Editing was sort of a holy grail because we would try something and then be like, oh, wait, I wish we could do it again, but you kind of can't do it again unless you can edit. And you kind of could if you set it up, it was a real pain in the ass if you tried to like dub what you had shot on the video camera onto an old VHS VCR and hit the pause button at just the right moment and then find the next thing and dub again and hopefully the cut was sort of smooth, but it never was. Anyway, when editing finally became something you could just do on a computer at home. I was thrilled. And for my 21st birthday, I got myself a new computer and my first copy of Final Cut Pro. And this was like 2002. And I mean, I ended up dropping out of college because I was just so fascinated with sitting there and editing.”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, first of all, I just had the advantage of being on a set a lot and watching a lot of directors on a set. So that part kind of came naturally. But there's a lot more to directing than the time on the set. I think the other one other thing that I came to focus on, though, was editing. Because as an actor, you never get to be in the editing room. You're not really aware of that whole process. And it's a huge, huge part of what makes a movie. And I love editing. I remember when I was growing up, I always wanted to edit, but you couldn't yet. That wasn't available to consumers yet. Sounds hard to believe now because you can edit video on your phone nowadays. When I was 10 or whatever, and we were using our family video camera, which weighed more than... 50 iPhones all duct tape together.”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because you should, like, if everything was done properly, then the actors will have rehearsed and kind of know what they're going to do and everything should be shotlisted and prepared. And, I mean, of course, everyone has their own methods. But the truth is a director does do a lot more than action and cut. And I think it comes back to this same thing that we're talking about is like because on the day things always arise that you don't expect. And there has to be one person who's making those decisions because”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, that's well put It's true. Yeah. If everything worked. Would just be able to show up and say action and cut. Kind of.”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But you're spending, I don't know what the actual number is, but some huge percentage of your budget is going into this very small sliver of time. And so you're always on the clock. And you've planned everything, but then something else will happen. Either something will fuck up or some new great idea will emerge all of a sudden. And it's up to you to decide at that moment on the clock Should I stick to the plan or should I go with this new thing that just came up? And the ones who can kind of make that decision well, in my experience, are the best directors.”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right when you needed it to work. And so his solution was okay, well, we can't see the shark, let's just can we make it work so that we can see its fin sticking out of the water. And if you see the movie, it's so effective. The shark is so much scarier because you never see it. You just see this fin. And it's so ominous. They didn't know that that was going to happen. That speaks to the point you brought up again spontaneity versus pre-planning. That's exactly being a film director. You're on a set days of production are so expensive and directing a movie is like a two-year process wherein you're actually shooting for like two months of it.”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The story goes, I never asked him about this because I'm sure he's sick of talking about it. The story goes that they had planned to see the shark a lot in the movie, and they had built this big animatronic shark and they had, you know.”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, okay. For those of you out there who, like my wife, don't know The Lord of Movies, if you've ever seen Jaws, which is one of the most powerful movies ever. It's about a shark. And you never see the shark, but you see its fin sticking out of the water.”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I would guess the former. I can't confirm that, and I never quite asked him that, but I would guess that when he was shooting jaws or when he was shooting Raiders the Lost Ark, that he had some shot lists. That would be my guess.”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think because he's just got such facility that he would prefer, and this gets back to the original point of spontaneity versus planning, he would prefer to watch what the actors do and figure out how he wanted to shoot it based on that, rather than have the actors have to fit into a pre-planned sort of shot list. And that's what he would do. And when we would show up to rehearsal, He wouldn't be thinking about camera yet. Some directors do. He wouldn't.”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Movie. So I was really thinking about it. I've always, ever since I was young, kind of followed directors and tried to soak up what I can. But at that time, I was really, really thinking about directing soon. And I asked him if he shotlisted. And he showed me in his script a couple of like tiny little lines that were just No one would have. I mean, a shot list when I shot my movie, a shot list was a long document with lots of description about all the different shots that we did for every scene. He had like a couple of pencil marks in his script because he just, I figured that he would be a meticulous shot lister as well because his shots are so well composed. He doesn't really, at least he didn't on Lincoln. And why is that? Watch him.”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, yeah, sure, there's tons. I'm trying to think of a really good example. I mean, you know, this might sound like I'm name dropping, but watching Steven Spielberg set up a shot is pretty special. I remember asking him about shot listing. Shot listing is sort of a standard thing that a director does. It's just you write down kind of all the different shots that you want to get for a scene. Because in any given scene, you might have, you know, you might want to capture it from three angles, four angles, five angles, depending on You like to do it. So I asked him, and this is actually in 2011 when I was shooting for him in a movie called Lincoln, which was just the year before.”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, he was the first actor director that I had ever worked for, and I really loved that. And that's a perfect example of why because of just what you're getting at, that he could say with authority, I never hit my marks, which I'm sure he's exaggerating. I'm sure he does hit his marks, but he just needed to correct my head there for a sec.”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That was so important because, on the one hand, yes, it's, here's this Oscar-winning cinematographer who set up the shot. And if the actor's not on the mark, the shot won't look the way that he wants it to look. But I think Mr. Redford had a lot of wisdom there to know that No matter how good the shot looks, if your actor is focused on a green piece of tape on the floor, it's not going to really be worth watching.”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That green piece of tape, and that's what I was focused on. And right before they rolled camera, Redford. Came up to me and just quietly said in my ear, I never hit my marks. And that's all he said, and he walked away.”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, around 100. And that's like a standard film crew ish and so I really was staring at that green piece of tape on the floor and knew that when we did the next tape, I was definitely going to walk in and stand right exactly”
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“I was 10. And I'd been on plenty of sets before. I'd been working, I think I said, since I was six. But no matter who you are or how long you've been doing it, it doesn't feel good to mess up twice and have to get a note like that.”
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“And by the way, the cinematographer for a river runs through it won an Oscar for this movie. And he, the DP, Director of Photography, which is the same as cinematographer. He walked up to me after the second time or whatever that I missed my mark and very nicely asked me to make sure that I stood on the mark, stood where that green piece of tape was on the floor. And I was. Nervous”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sure. Let's see. The first feature film I was ever in was a movie called A River Runs Through It. Which was directed by Robert Redford. Who's a great actor, turn director? And I was 10 And I remember this is one of my favorite stories We were doing a scene where I had to walk up to my dad at his desk. And sort of show him something I had written. We did a few takes, and I wasn't hitting my mark. A mark is a little piece of tape that they put down on the floor. So that when you walk into a room, you hit that mark. And that mark is important for you to hit because they've set up the camera. They've set up all the lights to all look good for the actor to stand in that exact position. And if the actor is standing in a different position, well, it'll look different.”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think the difference between unscripted and scripted is if you call the writers producers, you don't have to pay them as much.”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You into anything, there's a phrase sometimes that gets said people will say to a director, oh, you really got a great performance out of that actor. I always feel like That's not really how I would put it. And some directors do sort of try to take the proactive role and be like, it's up to me to get this performance out of you. So I'm going to use my manipulation or whatever it takes to force you into feeling what I need you to feel right now. Which to me feels adversarial in my experience doesn't usually work as well as sort of let's all be on the same team and I'm going to where the director is supporting the actor to Help the actor do what they need to do. And then presenting and making sure all the other elements are on the same page so that it all comes together in a cohesive way and the audience can feel it.”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so, what makes me say yes is when I feel good and on the same page with mostly the director because it should be the director's job to kind of be steering the whole entire ship with all of those elements in the same direction. It's not always just the director. Sometimes like in the case of 50-50 with Seth and Evan, there's John Levine, who is very much the director, but also Seth and Evan, who are producing our big parts of the collaborative process, and they're very collaborative in general. And that was one of the things I liked about their situation that they create is they really let the actors in. And it's a very collaborative thing. And you can feel like you trust them. They're not going to tell you they want one thing and be doing something else or try to treat.”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What I think often gets overlooked or underemphasized is just how big a role all the other factors are. When you think you're watching an actor give a performance and you are watching that actor, but you're also watching the work of the editor and the camera crew, you're listening to the work of the musicians and all production, all these other factors that all contribute to the feeling that you get when you watch a performance.”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Recent years, when I've been fortunate enough to be able to kind of pick what I do and don't do, it's sort of the only power you have as an actor in a way, is the power to say no. Because once you say yes, movies really aren't the actor's medium. And that's really cool and can also be frustrating depending on the context. If you're working with a director and other filmmakers who you're on the same page with, it can be incredible to have them there sort of bringing forth and Kind of refining and presenting the work that you do. But if you're not on the same page with somebody, it can be really frustrating because You can try all you want to make the performance what you think it should be. But ultimately, it's going to be up to the director”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, I should say the person who had to drop out was a family emergency. So there was no bad blood between anybody. But Yeah, why do I choose? I mean, it's a larger question that I think applies here the same as really any movie. Why choose any given movie? I mean, the first thing to say is I'm incredibly lucky to get to choose what role I do or don't take. And it wasn't always that way for many, many years. I started acting when I was six. like a long, long time up until actually pretty much just a few years ago, well, it's more than a few now, isn't it? I'm getting old, but... I would just audition and take the part that if I got a part, then that was great news. And I would do the part that I got. I would win on lots of auditions. And so I come from the mentality of it's amazing to get a role. However”
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“He surmounted my expectation, he exceeded my expectations by making the fire breathing joke. That was much more tasteful than a joke about my balls.”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“At least at certain times in my life. It's not brain killing. It's quite the opposite. My brain would kind of leap places that it might not otherwise.”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Wow. Yeah, see, to me, smoking weed and strong alcohol could not be two experiences that are more different from each other. That's not everyone's experience. And that, I mean, look, everyone has their, you know, their own, I think, reaction to different substances. And I'm not one of those weed smokers that encourages people to smoke weed because I do think it's different for everyone. But for me,”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We had a good talk about the movie and talked about the things that one normally talks about. And then we sort of got to a point where that part of the meeting came to a natural conclusion at which point Seth pulled out a joint and we went up to the roof and smoked and then had kind of what felt like the real meeting.”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I've been working with them in phases of my life where I was smoking a lot and phases in my life where I was not smoking a lot. And the first time I met them. Well, it wasn't the first time we met, but with the first time we really hung out They were asking me to do their movie 50 50. Flew up to Vancouver Where they were Short for reasons that don't really matter for the story. And they had to cast this role really quickly, as happens all the time in show business. And so I read the script. And that night flew up to Vancouver to sit down with Seth and Evan and John Levine, who was directing the movie.”
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“Is considered lowbrow or sort of mainstream or pop is often the most intelligently constructed, which applies to them sometimes.”
2018-05-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Evan Goldberg is known for being writing partners with Seth Rogan. And Seth and Evan are like the comedy pair, and they started by writing super bad together and they wrote it about themselves. In fact, the character names of Super Bad, if you go back and watch it again, RSeth and Evan. And I think Michael Sarah is playing Evan, right? And Jonah Hill is playing Seth, if I'm not mistaken, which is... Wildly inaccurate to who they are. But funny anyway. And yeah, they're just two really hilarious guys. We did two movies together. The first one was 50-50, and then the second one was called The Night Before. And they're really, really smart dudes, which is funny because they make humor that probably doesn't get regarded as smart, but as with many things in movies, I find oftentimes this stuff that”
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