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If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection.

If you are seeing something for the first time, one of your first reactions should be fascination.

Sometimes I think to get to the emotional level of a scene, you don't necessarily have to have experienced the exact thing that person has experienced, but whatever you have in your life that has gotten you to that place is usually enough.

I cry whenever I watch an emotional scene that I did, just because it brings me back to that moment. It's like, I remember being there; I remember feeling what I felt. It's really weird, right?

I know how to hit a mark without looking. I instinctively know where my eye line should be. That's all 100%. But your character and the story are always different, so the emotional part is not muscle memory. You're still surprised by stuff and get the adrenaline.

I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that?

Most movies are lucky to have one moment, one shot that you look at and you always remember that moment and that scene.

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words.

Memory has always fascinated me. Think of it. You can recall at will your first day in high school, your first date, your first love.