Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
It is harder to hide the feelings we have than to feign the ones we do not have.
I try to be genuine. I try to be real. It's such a subjective thing, but I try to convey an emotion.
The nearer emotional life approaches to hysteria, to continual outward show, the less genuine it becomes. Feeling becomes equated with vehemence of expression, so that insincerity becomes permanent.
Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel.
How far does a pretence of feeling, maintained with absolute conviction, become authentic?
These days, people spent too much time striving to understand their feelings - and then ended up with none that were genuine.
There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.
Genuine feelings are never the product of conscious effort. They are quite simply there, and they are there for a very good reason, even if that reason is not always apparent.
Instead of trying to manufacture feelings, use the way you already feel. Or at least add that in.
A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a rehearsal? There's something so beautiful about it that can't be faked.
All emotion is involuntary when genuine.
I've always been 100%. I don't grandstand for the cameras. I don't have fake outrage or indignation. No tricks, no screaming or throwing my leg on the floor.
