If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't think you can cry if the script is rubbish. I have to feel it; it's as simple as that. It's just like if you're watching something moving, and you feel yourself welling up. It's the same thing. You're just being carried along with the story. There's nothing magical about it. I think I'm in touch with my emotions, and I can't help it.
I think if a movie makes you cry, you probably needed to cry.
I'm an incredibly emotional person, but I always feel bad about that. The work is therapy... I need to emote wildly while I write. I weep. I'll laugh, get excited, and get up and pace. I try to take the emotional journey with the characters.
It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
It's never really fun to have to cry in a scene or anything like that.
When you're acting and you need to cry, you want to put yourself in a position where you're trying not to cry, because that is generally what people try and do. They try to hold on to their emotions, they don't want to lose them.
I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.
Everyone can teach themselves to cry... but sometimes you have just got to see that mental movie going on. You've got to be feeling it.
The way I work emotionally is: I don't ever try to cry. I try not to, which is what for me produces organic emotion.
I don't cry. Well, you know, I think coming from an acting background that's really helped me because I more than anyone know that an actor creates a character.