Jon Watts Quotes

There is a psychic cost children bear when they grow up in fear.

I lived for 10 years in Los Angeles, and the one element that surpasses everything else - that you are very conscious of - is fear. You can smell it.

Once you've had a panic attack you live in fear that another one is going to come. From the second it's gone, every moment every day is about the next one.

Anyone who's suffered from panic attacks knows how frightening they are.

I still feel I'm going to wake up any moment, and my skin's going to break out all over.

I'm always shook up and nervous and I've got the hospital record to prove it.

I think that fear comes about when there's things in the world that we want to change, things we're scared or angry about, and we can't change them, and so we become fearful; we develop anxiety.

Nightmares are releases.

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

For some men, life seems to be one long attempt to escape childhood and all the fears of childhood. That's what many of us are doing.

If I sleep for more than half an hour, I get horrible dreams in which I'm firing a gun and helicopters are coming down.

At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.

It's a universal truth that no parent wishes to acknowledge that the fear and phobias we are in thrall to in adulthood almost invariably connect back to childhood experiences.

I have quite a lot of anxiety dreams.

I woke up nights, worrying that Lotus was out of control - that no one would know what to do.

I think about dying a lot, every time I fall asleep on a train or a plane I expect to wake up to a crash!

I very often have night terrors. Just think of the worst possible situation, and it's a regular thing for me. I've died in my sleep twenty-three different ways.

I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.

I have crazy claustrophobic dreams, weird elevator dreams where the elevator closes in and all of a sudden I am lying down - oh my God, it's a casket. Just freaky stuff like that.

I have a lot of nightmares.

What I wasn't prepared for were the feelings of anxiety that it stirred in me. I wasn't prepared for the initial feeling of I don't want to have to do that again. I was scared.

If you said 'Boo' to me, I wouldn't sleep for two weeks! I don't like scary movies.

I had trained myself not to go to the bathroom throughout my elementary and junior high school years because I was bullied. And you don't understand why you're being bullied, so you just suppress it.

I still have nightmares about taking tests.

I told my therapist I was having nightmares about nuclear explosions. He said don't worry it's not the end of the world.