Juliana Hatfield Quotes

No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it's not enough.

I couldn't find a group that wanted to do what I wanted to do. No one was really up for it.

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.

I'm not really satisfied with anything I have written to date.

I feel like everything will be a letdown after 'You're The Worst.' It was such a great experience.

I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.

The process of a date, I think, is terrible. Horrible. Because everything is banal and predicted.

I am miserable when I'm in a movie I'm not proud of and a movie that I don't want to do.

When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.

'The Stepford Wives' was too big, and it was unsatisfying to do. Not that it was unsatisfying to do, but it was unsatisfying as a result because, as much as I loved parts of it, and I'm really proud of so much of it, the entire movie wasn't what I wanted it to be. It's my own fault; I didn't follow my instincts.

Usually, with the work I've done, by the end, I usually feel like it's a failure. It doesn't matter how it's received.

I've never really been satisfied with a book. I always want it to be better.

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

I remember rehearsing it, and it was the one that we were really excited about and thought would sound the best, and once it was down on tape, it was like, This doesn't actually sound that good.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

I trained myself to not get my hopes up, because there were so many times in the room where you'd be like, 'This feels amazing, this is a hit!' And it never saw the light of day.

It's always disappointing when your work is not received as you hope it would be.

During my freshman year of college, it became undeniably clear that I didn't want to be great again. I correlated greatness with misery.

It has happened many a times where I have taken a project and wasn't happy about it.

I need all of my songs while I'm writing them, because I need to get the stuff out of my body and out of my brain. I write out of necessity, not because I want to be a pop star.

Sometimes it seemed like it was never good enough, no matter what I did.

I was surrounded by a lot of people not doing what they wanted to do.

Sometimes you don't see the result that you expect.

To be excited is still to be unsatisfied.

After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.