Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

I have a lot of what you might call creative self-loathing - I have pretty high expectations, and they seem to consistently be higher than what I'm able to accomplish.

I don't know many artists who are happy with themselves all of the time.

One day I think it's the greatest idea ever that I'm working on. The next day I think it's the worst that I've ever worked on - and I swing between that a lot. Some days I'm very happy with what I'm doing, and the next day I am desperate - it's not working out!

As a typical creative, I am all ego and insecurity!

I think I'm my own worst enemy.

I just try to get out of my own way because if anyone is their own worst enemy, it's usually you.

I am my own worst enemy. My friends and family will say, 'You've got everything going for you right now', and I say, 'Oh yes, but!' Which is not a good way to be.

I'm my own worst enemy and I know that.

When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy.

I get in my own head, and at the end of the day, I'm my biggest critic, and I'm my worst enemy, too.

I'm my own worst enemy.

Some days I feel good about my work, and sometimes I feel I've never written anything worthwhile. That's par for the course.

Sometimes you're your own worst critic.

When I'm writing, I'm locking myself in a room. I'm the worst critic in the world. I write something and then I beat myself up. I'm like "Vin, you're retarded, that makes no sense."

I'm wired with a little bit of self-loathing, not that kind of self-loathing that paralyzes me, but it's there. The things I'm most loved for are sometimes the things that annoy me, not my favorite stuff, but those flashes of genius moments, they're called, I rarely see them as a one eureka light bulb idea.

I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.

Writers always have confidence issues - it comes with the territory. We never know where we fit in, or what the actual value of our work might be. So we hit lulls, or slogs. Throw in the idea that many creative people are somewhat manic-depressive, and it can get pretty dark at times.

I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?

As an actor, you're constantly riddled with self-doubt. You are your own worst critic.

I was like, 'Josh Tillman, you are not a songwriter. You are an ape. Stop thinking of yourself as a songwriter.'

Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.

I don't even know why I'm saying this in an interview situation, but I always feel like I'm not good enough for some reason. I wish that wasn't the case, but left to my own devices, that voice starts speaking up.

Successful people tend to feel simultaneously inadequate and superior.