Joseph Gordon-Levitt: How craving attention makes you less creative

First of all, thank you for your attention.

There's nothing quite like being in a room full of people like this, where all of you are giving your attention to me.

It's a powerful feeling, to get attention.

I'm an actor, so I'm a bit of an expert on, well, nothing, really.

But I do know what it feels like to get attention -- I've been lucky in my life to get a lot more than my fair share of attention.

And I'm grateful for that, because like I said, it's a powerful feeling.

But there's another powerful feeling that I've also been lucky to experience a lot as an actor.

And it's funny, it's sort of the opposite feeling, because it doesn't come from getting attention.

It comes from paying attention.

When I'm acting, I get so focused that I'm only paying attention to one thing.