go with the emotion

I would just add that some directors, you have to fit into a context or a perception of a world they create. You know what I mean? There’s a lot of plots that are hard to unravel, that are very intricate, that doesn’t allow a lot of movement. But even those directors, if they allow you as an actor to say… Scorsese says this all the time. He says, I don’t care about plot. I don’t care about plot. He goes, I want to go with the emotion of what the actor does because that’s the story to me. Sometimes it could be less, sometimes it could be more. But When I watch a movie, those are the moments that I remember. I don’t think about, Oh, this happened in the plot. That happened. I was like, That moment with those actors, that felt like real life to me. It’s funny. It’s crazy. Joe Pesci and Goodfellas It was that moment. He’s trying to capture those moments of real life that make you feel something, that make you feel like you’re a part of the story in a way.

Leo DiCaprio talking on Kelce Bros “New Heights” podcast.