Name: Joseph Gordon-Levitt Breaks Down His Career, from '10 Things I Hate About You' to 'Inception'
Uploaded: 2020-12-08T18:15:36.000Z
Duration: 24 min 38 s
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- I'm putting a positive spin on my career

as a whole right now, because I'm making a video

I could have made the opposite version of this video,

where I just [beep] on myself for all this time

when you might assume, oh, a 10-year-old kid

"A River Runs Through It" was the first feature film

Up until that point, I'd done some TV shows

I hated doing commercials because it wasn't serious acting.

The director of "A River Runs Through It"

And that was the first time I'd ever been directed

And he did not treat me like a kid at all.

from working with Mr. Redford was this scene

where I had to walk up to my dad's desk, say some lines.

you have, they call it hitting your mark.

which is this little piece of tape on the ground.

and they've set up the lights all in such a way

And it doesn't matter how good your acting is

asked me very nicely, if I could make sure to hit my mark.

And of course I was like, "Oh no, I've been blowing it."

And we were getting ready to shoot the next take,

and I was just focused, laser focused, on that mark,

on that little piece of tape on the ground.

Bob, Robert Redford, he goes by Bob, Bob came up to me,

But first of all, here's the strength of having an actor

He understood exactly what was going through my mind.

that I was supposed to be focused on were out the window,

and I was just focused on hitting that mark.

feeling what your character needs to be feeling,

telling an authentic story, but also accomplishing

all the technical things that you need to accomplish

If you believe in miracles, love at first sight,

and breakfast in bed, contact me for adventures in truth.

- I got the part on "Third Rock From the Sun"

And if they like you, they bring you back.

with a whole bunch of executives from the network

and the production company and John Lithgow.

And when you get to audition with another actor,

There's just a lot of people and we were getting laughs

and I hadn't done that much comedy by that point.

It just felt so good, I came away from that being like,

"Well, who knows if they'll give me this part."

You just never know, but that seemed great.

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt Breaks Down His Career, from '10 Things I Hate About You' to 'Inception'

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