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I think that in some cases, I've made films that have a sentimental quality, at least as part of the film.

And that's why I chose on purpose not to have a death scene. We've seen them in a million movies and it's too much like cranking the tears out. I didn't want that scene.

I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind.

I'm not terribly sentimental.

Even in the big movies, if the scenes are very big, I'm not fond of them as much as I'm fond of small actor scenes.

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.

Every film that I have done has a special place in my heart.