“It’s less about what you do and more about who you’re doing it with”

“I think there is something beautiful and reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So I don’t think being sad is to be avoided. It’s apathy and boredom you want to avoid. But feeling anything is good, I think. Maybe that’s sadistic of me.”

“Every day I’ve got to be thankful that I am alive, and you never know – the cliche is, I guess, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow, so you’d better be at peace with whatever you got going at the moment.”

“The sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.”

“I’m tired

of being tired

of being tired

of being.”

“I lost you when you left me to find yourself.”

“I really try to make movies as good as I can, and create a convincing character who means something to me and maybe other people. The notion of celebrity is kind of saying, ‘All that doesn’t matter. We’re not interested in the story you’re trying to tell. What interests us is you, your name, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, quote-unquote, and who you’re dating or what you’re eating or…’ And to me, that’s like, Wow, so you’re saying what I love and spend so much time caring about is irrelevant and doesn’t matter? Fuck you, too.”

“If you’re going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.”

“People should be able to say how they feel. How they really feel. Not, you know, some words that some strangers put in their mouth.”

“I didn’t really like doing commercials. You had to behave like you were on angel dust or something.”

“Secondly, don’t let anyone ever make you feel like you don’t deserve what you want.”

(on pornography)”You’re taking a person — in our culture it’s usually a woman — and reducing her to a thing, to an object for your consumption. I think plenty of mainstream media is equally guilty of that as pornography.”