When you're on set you don't realize the way something is going to look since you're on the other side of the camera.
Jesse EisenbergThe movies that are really big, at least in my experience, oftentimes don't have characters that I feel as personally connected to.
Jesse EisenbergMy mom always said that she didn't wear a red nose and big shoes because that's the reason people are scared of clowns. My dad is a sociology teacher, so he probably figured that out with her. Those are the things that are exaggerated, that don't give off the signals of humans. You know, if you draw a picture of a circle and ask somebody to feel empathy with the circle, they won't. But if you draw literally two, three dots inside the circle, like two eyes and a nose, you immediately feel empathy.
Jesse Eisenberg