The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them, 'Ok, be sad now.'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To me, it's important to try and make an emotional connection with the audience.
When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile.
You got to have an emotional connect with the audience who watch you.
The best way to show an emotion is not through a character's words, but their smallest expressions - to take what an actor would visually do and try putting that down on the page for the reader to 'see.'
I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.
You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.
Long scenes of emotion are quite difficult - you've got to build up to them and make sure you're in the right emotional space.
I love doing emotional scenes. As I've had a perfect life, I don't really have much to pull from. But it's really fun and not that challenging. It's almost pretty easy. The hardest thing is to try and make people laugh. That's a really hard thing.
I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage.
I firmly believe that emotions are universal, and I know that when they connect with the audience, it works. There is no such thing as an entertaining or a serious film; there are good films and bad films. Good films will always find a vast audience.