Joseph Gordon-Levitt Quotes

When I'm working, I always listen to music to zone everyone else out.

When I'm on set, I do whatever I can to find my focus.

I think there are times when you walk onto a set you can potentially be either intimidated or distracted by what's going on around you.

I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block.

I try not to think about any of the production side of things. If you do, you tend to get unfocused and distracted. I just try to think about the character and the scene and what I'm doing.

I don't really listen to music when I work. I really have to focus on one thing at a time. I like a lot of quiet and peace when I'm working or when I'm thinking or when I'm reading.

There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

I just prefer instrumental. I don't need to hear what other people are singing. And if I need music as a backdrop to work or to think, I need to have that part of the brain clear - I don't need people feeding their fantasies into my vision.

I don't like to listen to music while I'm working.

While I'm working, I stick with music that won't distract me - the dub stylings of Scientist and King Tubby, maybe some Beethoven string quartets.

I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.

I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project.

I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to.

My tendency is to be quiet and to stay focused and in character. Not the entire time, but certainly to stay focused while I'm on set.

I literally cannot work without music.

I've tried to shut myself off as much as possible from the hype of 'War Horse,' and just thought, 'OK, I'm going to focus on the character and focus on the story and focus on what I have to do.'

In terms of, like, getting into a mindset, I use music all the time when I'm working.

It amazes me how much noise there is on a set while people are trying to focus and do their jobs. But there's some kind of order within that chaos.

I'm pretty comfortable on any set where I have something to do.

My job is to act, so I just focus on that.

When they say 'action,' I am into it completely and forget everything around. When they say 'cut,' I am back to myself.

I know I like to get in the zone, maybe stick on my headphones and listen to music. It helps me concentrate and go over what we've talked about in the team meetings, so I can visualise what's ahead.

Listening is the key to total concentration. You listen as the character would listen, closing the door on everything else. Then you are ready to respond.

To me, acting is a matter of absolute concentration. You can laugh and giggle with your friends up to the minute the director says, "Action!" Then you snap your mind into shape and into the character that you're playing and relate to the people that you're acting with and forget everybody else that you've been joking with.

The job's always the same. It involves helping to tell the story and creating an alloy between character and story that serves the film.