Marc Cherry Quotes

Writing is inherently scary.

I'm excited and terrified to write something new. I won't be writing about suburbia.

Every journey starts with fear.

My films are so new and unique that I don't know where I will end up. Fear keeps me alert. And it's also a part of an excitement.

Going out and trying new stuff on an audience is a scary thing.

Every book takes you to the terror, that terrible place of possible failure.

Taking a new step. . .is what people fear most.

I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.

I was nervous about writing Slow Regard.

I'm widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I'm not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.

Nothing gets me more excited and inspired than something new.

To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!

I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.

Sometimes it's bad to do something you've never done before.

Sometimes the things that scare me are the things I'm drawn to: moving to London, L.A., New York; marrying, having a kid. In order to live a full life, sometimes you have to do things that scare you.

I know that if I wasn't scared, something's wrong, because the thrill is what's scary.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

I'm writing a poem right now about a nose. I've always wanted to write a poem about a nose. But it's a ludicrous subject. That's why, when I was younger, I was afraid of something that didn't make a lot of sense. But now I'm not. I have nothing to worry about. It doesn't matter.

I think on some level, you do your best things when you're a little off-balance, a little scared. You've got to work from mystery, from wonder, from not knowing.

For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.

If you don't have nerves and a little trepidation about any new project, then I don't think you're really alive.

Pretty much everything I've written is a mix of excitement and fear.

I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.

You have to write about what scares you.

It's very scary to become someone new, to take that path less followed.