“The
(500) Days of Summer attitude of ‘He wants you so bad’ seems attractive
to some women and men, especially younger ones. But I would encourage
anyone who has a crush on my character to watch it again and examine how
selfish he is. He develops a mildly delusional obsession over a girl
onto whom he projects all these fantasies. He thinks she’ll give his
life meaning because he doesn’t care about much else going on in his
life. A lot of boys and girls think their lives will have meaning if
they find a partner who wants nothing else in life but them. That’s not
healthy. That’s falling in love with the idea of a person, not the
actual person.”
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
