Alan Parker Quotes

I'm waiting for the floor to drop out from under me.

There's always fear. Always fear. Anyone who says they are not afraid is lying to you. Because this can all change tomorrow.

I'm scared of the unknown future.

I always feel scared and insecure on a film set. I don't know any other way.

The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.

The unknown is very scary.

Uncertainty's not good for anybody.

I lived with uncertainty.

You can be afraid of a lot of things that you don't understand.

I'm one of those people who, even if I'm invited somewhere, I still kinda feel like I'm not supposed to be there.

No one likes uncertainty.

People are afraid of what they don't know.

The unknown is always scary.

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

We all fear what we don't know - it's natural.

Fear is born in uncertainty and nourished by pessimism.

Indecision is the seedling of fear.

Tension means hurry, fear, doubt. Tension means a constant effort to protect, to be secure, to be safe. Tension means preparing for the tomorrow now, or for the afterlife - afraid tomorrow you will not be able to face the reality, so be prepared. Tension means the past that you have not lived really but only somehow bypassed; it hangs, it is a hangover, it surrounds you.

Henry Fonda one time said that every time he had a job, he thought it was gonna' be the last one. And, if you got any sense, you gotta' think that because, you know when somebody's gonna do a dip, some of 'em go pretty far down.

I think most people are afraid of what they don't know.

I don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on the edge of a cliff about to fall off.

I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.'

I have always been afraid of banks.

In a way, I'm always trying to do something I'm not qualified to do. So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my basic mindset.

The unknown is always frightening.