It's true I have a side of me that isn't very adult. I can get very emotional about things. I can become crazy, act the clown.
I was always very much a diva.
'Somewhere in Time' is in the top-five cheesiest movies ever made. It's super melodrama.
If you think I'm over-the-top, I am.
Most acting is very melodramatic. It's not what you see in people.
I'm prone to hyperbole.
I tend to be melodramatic and super self-involved.
Sometimes... I can't believe what mum says or does when she's being really dramatic.
There's nothing worse than an ostentatious shot. Or some lighting that draws attention to itself, and you might go, 'Oh, wow, that's spectacular.' Or that spectacular shot, a big crane move, or something.
Hyperbole is not easily dealt with. Usually, it collapses under its own weight.
I distinguish sentiment from sentimentality. Sentimentality makes your skin crawl. It's like too much sugar. But, sentiment is a great feeling.
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.
I always hated 'O Holy Night.' It's so operatic and overwrought.
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
Sentimental is not bad, but it's probably the most likely to go awry. It's the hardest to do and not have it end up being 'Forrest Gump' or something. Maudlin - I just don't want it to be maudlin.
What are you? An after school special?
Melodrama is sometimes broadly applied and sometimes derogatorily applied.
I think probably I'm quite sentimental; I like big emotional stories, I like being moved by things, but I think I'm very embarrassed by sentiment. I'm very embarrassed by corniness.
Hyperbole is something I'd better avoid.
I always squirm when I read what's called 'creative nonfiction,' and the writer is lobbing gobs of emotion and language at the world, hoping some of it will stick.
Melodrama and melodramatic are not the same thing, and often people make the mistake of confusing the two.
I didn't want to start acting like a cartoon.
Usually my writing is very over the top and bombastic and very, like, 'I'm amazing! Look at me!'
