Home / Topics / Anxiety Quotes

Anxiety Quotes

Browse 3343 quotes about Anxiety.

Anxiety Quotes

“I dislike The Exorcist, and I found it a warning sign of the dangers in a furious cinematic talent putting the audience through it (a Hitchcock phrase) without purpose, or without the nagging moral anxiety that activated Hitch. You see, I don't think William Friedkin believes in the Devil, or cares about him. I think he found exorcism a pretext for a gross-out and he calculated there was an audience for it, or a crowd ready to be challenged. Maybe I'm too much of an atheist to stand religion being so thrashed.”

“Nothing drew me to the film business. I was propelled by the fear and anxiety of Vietnam. I had been drafted into the Marines. My brother was already serving in Vietnam. I bought, if you will, a stay of execution - both literally and figuratively - and went on to graduate school of business from the law school that I was attending.”

Ifs School Film Law Brother Anxiety My Brother Serving Vietnam Graduates Execution Marine Attending Law School Graduate School

Author:Peter Guber

“It'd be nice to feel that claustrophobic feeling or the anxiety that the film Melancholia produces, but for me I look at it and think about what I was doing that day, where we shot it... It's kind of like a weird memory. It's more a photo album of memories than being able to feel connected to myself. It's not easy to do.”

Thinking Feels Looks Kind Feelings Able Film Easy Memories Nice Produce Anxiety Shots Albums Connected Being Nice

Author:Kirsten Dunst

“That is the greatest source of my anxiety on this film [The Hobbit], is that I'm going to be lynched.”

Film Source Anxiety

Author:Evangeline Lilly

“There's this point between conscious and subconscious when you realize you were asleep and resting, and you were having all kinds of anxiety dreams about the film and all the things that can go wrong. You get in this hypnagogic state, where you're waking up and realizing, "Oh, it was just a dream."”

Kind States Dream Film Realizing Anxiety Conscious Wake Up All Kinds Waking Subconscious Just A Dream

Author:David Slade

“I think the contrast between these two in the professional world of cinema mattered to me. One who has reached the ultimate point of being a star, who knows how to do everything very well, facing another person who would throughout the making of the film transfer his anxiety to both of us, to me and to Juliette, as to whether or not he would be capable of fulfilling his role. This in itself created a challenge that was actually very good for me, since I hadn't ever counterposed two such performers before, creating that challenge between someone who knows their part and someone who doesn't.”

Thinking Knows World Wells Persons Two Would Be Film Stars Challenges Roles Know How Anxiety Creating Capable Ultimate Very Good Cinema Performers Contrast Fulfilling Transfers

Author:Abbas Kiarostami

“I saw this French woman, this English man in Italy. It was a film [Certified Copy] I knew well, but I had already seen it, and I was familiar with it, and I had no feeling of anxiety or responsibility toward it.”

Men Wells Feelings Film Responsibility Saws Anxiety Familiar Copies French Woman

Author:Abbas Kiarostami

“I should perhaps warn you that I am about to faint from anxiety and general depression, though. The film I saw last night was especially grueling, a teen-age beach musical. I almost collapsed during the singing sequence on surfboard.”

Should Age Lasts Film Night Saws Anxiety Singing Musical Beach Last Night Sequence

Book:A Confederacy of Dunces

Source: A Confederacy of Dunces

“I think the joy of wanting to direct is having that nervous anxiety knowing your film is about to be shown and you're sitting right there with everyone.”

Thinking Film Joy Knowing Anxiety Sitting Direct Nervous

Author:Renee O'Connor

“I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.”

Two Film Chance Anxiety Silent Brooks Silent Movies High Anxiety

Author:Barry Levinson