Todd Haynes Quotes

Every time I do a play, it's as if I've never done one before. I'm always confused. I always am convinced I'm going to be fired. I'm like, 'I don't remember how to act. I don't know how to do this.' And, it's just a very slow process, and then, all of a sudden, it's just there one day. I still don't understand how it happens.

Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff.

I am very scared at the beginning of each book, because I've never written it before. I feel I have to teach myself how to do it.

I feel like every time I write a song, it feels like the first time I wrote a song. It's just as hard; it doesn't get easier, but that's why I love it: because it's a challenge every time. I also feel like I'm learning new ways.

Every time I do one I feel like I've never really quite learned anything. I always find that when I'm making a film, I find it a little bit like I'm doing it for the first time.

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

Every time I start a film I feel like I'm starting the first time, ever.

As an actor, you have an accumulated knowledge base. But there's also something about it that every time you really feel like you're doing it for the first time; you have no idea whether you're capable of it.

Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.

Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.

Every time you do a take on a movie, you're not sure if it's going to succeed. Even if you have a great cast, like we had, every scene you're kind of waiting for the release. 'Oh, yes; it happened. We got it!' There's always the possibility that it's just not going to work.

Lack of confidence - every time I start a new piece of work, it seems I have to spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.

Every time I do a project, it always comes with a level of discomfort and not knowing how to do it.

I feel confidence in myself, but at the same time there's these cracks in the facade and those little things underneath that are unstable.

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

Every time I do something or release something or announce a new project, there's always that fear that it won't go well.

I am always in self-doubt... every moment of my filmmaking. I am supremely confident when the story is being written and everything is in our head. But the moment we get into the filmmaking, I start doubting myself - from the camera angle to the re-recording to getting the actors to do their shots.

You win a race, the next race it's a question mark. Are you still the best or not? That's what is funny. But that's what is interesting. And that's what is challenging. You have to prove yourself every time.

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 don't feel secure at all. I don't know what actor would feel they've made it. I feel like I'm just starting.

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

I don't much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I'm doing it wrong now.

I was wracked with insecurity.

Every single time I start to do a picture, without fail, I feel as if I don't know what I'm doing.

I don't know if I have a career or not, or where it ends or it begins. I have been working, doing what I do for a long time. But my creative process has always been so tortuous.