“...let the emotional weight of a scene rest on the dialogue wherever possible. This is the easy way to avoid overinterpretation, which seems to be what turns a scene from sympathetic to sentimental.” WaySeemsTurnsEasyEmotionalSceneWeightDialogueSentimentalSympatheticEasy Way Author:Judith Guest
“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.” ThinkingStoriesBigsEmotionalMovedSentimentsEmbarrassedSentimental Author:David Nicholls
“Regardless, heterosexual marriage is largely in trouble today because people see it as a selfish means of pleasing self, rather than a committed relationship in which the focus is on meeting the needs of the partner, that sense of selfishness and the redefinition of love as to something that is purely sentimental and emotional, has been destructive.” PeopleLoveNeedsMeanHas BeensSelfTodayFocusTroubleEmotionalMeetingsCommittedPartnersSelfishSelfishnessDestructiveSentimentalSense Of SelfCommitted RelationshipHeterosexual Marriage Author:Mike Huckabee
“Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don't worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable; worry about being absent or fraudulent.” WritingWorryEmotionalVulnerabilitySentimentalAbsentAppearing Author:Anne Lamott
“I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you're wrong, you're soppy, sentimental.” FeelsShouldTryingProduceEmotionalResponseListenersSentimentalCatharticEmotional Response Author:Paul Simon
“One that we can admire aesthetically and participate viscerally in. So the goal here, and we've had some early, small screenings, what seems to be kind of happening is that you come in thinking you're going to see a cool robot boxing movie, you don't expect this emotional underdog, father/son movie. And it's not one that's soft and overly sentimental, but hopefully it's one that's poignant.” ThinkingKindSeemsFatherGoalEmotionalSonHappeningsAdmireHopefullyBoxingBe KindSentimentalRobotsUnderdogFather SonPoignantScreening Author:Shawn Anthony Levy
“It's interesting, for me sappy means sentimental and something that gets you in your heart, gets you emotional. That's what I mean. Also, of course, it means that I'm slightly setting up the audience that there's a bit of fun involved, as well.” WellsHeartMeanCoursesFunBitsInterestingAudienceEmotionalInvolvedSettingSettingsSentimental Author:Alan Cumming
“I knew that the principle objective of my film was to be a sentimental or an emotional study. What I did was kind of like subterfuge.” KindFilmPrinciplesStudyEmotionalObjectivesSentimentalSubterfuge Author:Louis Garrel
“Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.” EmotionalSentimentsSentimentalSentimentalityPromiscuity Author:Norman Mailer