IGN, March 30, 2006 - about his role in Killshot
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[It's a] really smart, faithful adaptation of the book. The book is such a tight page-turner… The character I play is an extreme guy… He's a killer. He wants to be Jesse James. He grew up watching cowboy and Indian movies and wants to be that. Then he meets Mickey Rourke's character, who's named The Black Bird and he wants to partner up with him and be a criminal and kill people. He's a psychotic and very bad guy… The thing about him is, he's not the bad killer, the kind of guy that sits and stews and then has these rageful outbursts. He is this extreme extrovert who never shuts up and tells you ridiculously tall tales about himself and mythologizes everything… Hyperactive, hyper, hyper guy wearing cowboy boots.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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About Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt (born February 17, 1981, in Los Angeles, California) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and editor.