On his new ten-episode series, Joseph Gordon-Levitt will get into the nitty-gritty of how a wide variety of creative people do what they do. Listeners’ questions will inspire conversations between Gordon-Levitt and a range of creative guests, from Hollywood notables like Rian Johnson and Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg, to behind-the-scenes heavyweights like casting director Mary Vernieu, and from political visual artist Shepard Fairey to indie sonic songstress, Yuka Honda, and more.
“I love being entrepreneurial because it’s really just about getting to play MacGyver, but for business.” -Tony Hsieh Welcome to a very special episod...
“You have to push yourself outside of your comfort zone. You have to allow yourself to fail. Once you get over the fear of failure, then you will star...
“From an actor's perspective...you have to be prepared for it to be really hard because there's so many factors that are influencing why you get a rol...
“Making things ‘easy’ always has a downside...To pretend that you can make something easy without losing some of your focus and discipline is always a...
“When you're an artist, it's not a button you can push on or off. You're always an actor. I sleep as an actor. I wake up as an actor.... I always thin...
“A lot of people often think of rationality as actually about removing your emotions entirely, but I disagree with that because emotions are what ulti...
“There’s times before my mom and I are about to go onstage to play together, and maybe we just argued right before going on. But there’s something abo...
For this episode, I’m going to do something a little different. I recently did a TED Talk, and there was something really distinct and special about i...
“At the end of the day, I’d rather make stuff period than make stuff how I want to make stuff. And specific to us, I’d rather make stuff together even...
“To me, it's not about really external/internal. It's about a pipe between me and others...I have all these thoughts and I want to express them all, b...