Scene Chemistry Quotes

What I enjoy most with acting is when it's a good scene with one or two other actors, and you feel a strong connection, and you don't know how you're going to respond, and everybody is listening to each other and getting affected by each other, and even though you've rehearsed it many times, it feels like it's happening right now.

Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.

The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.

I like to go off the other actors in the scene, which kind of stinks when you're acting with someone who's not that great.

Actors will, in their mind, want to 'steal the scene,' and the problem is that means the scene didn't work in the first place.

When you've got good actors, they're going to come up with good stuff, but you're never quite sure how the dynamics are going to work between them.

The biggest cardinal sin is not being in the moment, whether in life or on-screen. You owe it to your fellow actor that if they feed you something, you give them an earnest response to what they've said to you as opposed to what you wanted to do before they ever showed up.