• Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes.

    Joseph Gordon-Levitt: Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes.
    "Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. September 28, 2011.