"When your scene partner initiates a scene, it’s not your job to figure out what they meant, or “get it right.” Instead, it’s your job to be unhesitatingly presumptuous about what it could mean. More specifically, it’s your job to notice and accept the first interpretation that your brain gives you because that’s the only one that the audience will believe. Stopping to wonder what they meant plays out on your face. The audience sees it. If you then pretend that you do know what they meant, we won’t believe you. But if you accept your first interpretation, you will look (and feel) like someone who understands which is far more important than whatever your next line is."
