Genuine Reactions Quotes

I really loved getting to interact with an animal or a baby or a kid in a scene because they don't really know that you're acting. They don't know that this isn't reality.

Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.

A lot of the people I'm working with are not actors, or it's their first time in a movie. I'm not trying to shape performances, coax performances out of them. It's more like I want to put them in situations that naturally work or allow them to be themselves. If it's not happening, I'll just completely switch it up, rather than trying to make it work.

I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut - or get angry from the gut.

Genuine feelings are never the product of conscious effort. They are quite simply there, and they are there for a very good reason, even if that reason is not always apparent.

People are surprised when Hollywood characters act the way a real person would.

There's this freshness that happens within the first few takes of the actors actually listening to each other and actually really reacting.

I think anyone who follows me knows how I react. It's not always poetic and perfect but neither am I.