In film, it's very important to not allow yourself to get sentimental, which, being British, I try to avoid. People sometimes regard sentimentality as emotion. It is not. Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think that in some cases, I've made films that have a sentimental quality, at least as part of the film.
Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.
Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.
Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.
I'm quite British in the sense of not expressing my emotions much. I save it for my songs. If you ask about a death in the family, or a lover, I will not be emotional. I'd probably answer with a smile. Because that's what we British blokes do.
It's counterproductive. The problem with sentimentality is that it kills the emotion.
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
I think I'm a very sentimental person. Conscious or not, that's what draws me to the kind of films I want to make.