Creative Processing with Joseph Gordon-Levitt

MacGyver, Media, & Merchandise / Tony Hsieh, CEO & Internet Entrepreneur

“I love being entrepreneurial because it’s really just about getting to play MacGyver, but for business.” -Tony Hsieh Welcome to a very special episode of CREATIVE PROCE

Pushing Boundaries & Yourself / Jessica Alba, Actress and Entrepreneur

“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 start to find where your

Career & Contacts / Mary Vernieu, Casting Director

“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 role and why you don't

Tech & Humanity / Jaron Lanier, Computer Scientist, Writer, & Musician

“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 fallacy. There's al

Love & The Paycheck / Omid Memar, Up-and-Coming Actor

“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 think about art and crea

Analytics & Intuition / Liv Boeree, Professional Poker Player

“A lot of people often think of rationality as actually about removing your emotions entirely, but I disagree with that because emotions are what ultimately make us human

Family & Folk Music / Madisen Ward and The Mama Bear, Mother-And-Son Folk Band

“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 about that moment... wh

TED TALK / How craving attention makes you less creative

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 it. I’m pretty used t

Collaboration & Friendship / Seth Rogen + Evan Goldberg, Comedy Duo

“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 than stuff alone.”

Clouds & Pipes / Yuka Honda, Sonic Songstress

“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, but people are not al

Art & Politics / Shepard Fairey, Propagandist

“I want to be transparent that any image with an agenda (which is actually most images) is a form of propaganda. It’s just whether you try to hide that fact or whether yo

Originality & Imitation / Rian Johnson, Filmmaker

“You have to be kind of angry about something to write a script...and if the thing that you're angry about is not something that you identify in yourself, I'm always wary

COMING SOON - Episode 1 with Rian Johnson!

Here’s a little snippet from the very first episode of Creative Processing featuring writer/director extraordinaire Rian Johnson! I was in his very first movie, Brick as

Joseph Gordon-Levitt wants to hear your questions about creativity...

In his new podcast, "Creative Processing," Joseph Gordon-Levitt wants to explore all aspects of creativity and artistic collaboration. Each episode will focus on a single