
Joseph Gordon-Levitt on the Anxiety of Unfulfilled Dreams
The Anxious Achiever
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How Do You Separate the Art and Creativity From the Show Business?
Acting on a set is something i've been doing ever since i was a little kid, and so i think i've drawn a lot of skills from doing that that are beyond just the acting part. One of the things you have to do on aSet is focus. You're trying to embody a character who's standing in a room with,. for example, one person and having an important emotional conversation with that person. But in reality, you're not in a roomWith like 20 people and all these lights and a camera and microphone; we have to tune all of them out. All of it just goes away.
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