Dan Trachtenberg Quotes

I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying.

I'm always surprised to rediscover that there's something kind of scary about life; and that the feeling we have that we're in charge is probably ill founded.

It's inevitable that you feel scared when you don't have control of a situation.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.

At the heart of any terror is the fear of losing what we find meaningful.

With such riches as I have in life, you're always nervous. Being Irish, you're waiting for something to knock it sideways.

I felt vulnerable and very much between friends. I remember walking down the hallway and thinking I had no way of knowing what was coming, literally. This wasn't because I had some horrific bullying story, but because of a steady drip of negativity.

And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.

I'm not sure I always feel like I'm in the seat. Sometimes I'm only holding on by one hand and flying out behind the roller coaster. I don't know anybody who doesn't feel that way.

Hemingway has expressed with genius the terrors of the modern man at the danger of losing control of his world

I worry about everything, which is silly because there's very little you can control anyway.

The world's my oyster. But it worries me, all this showing off about being happy. Life is so precarious, and I know terrible things can happen. At the moment, everything is happy.

Life can't be always be stable always right. There are things which are out of your control.

I've lost a lot of control in my life.

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

Really it's always things that scare me like loss of control, dealing with the unknown and the unseen... Something that's not supposed to be there and you don't know where it came from, or what it wants from you, or how to defend yourself against it. That's the root of the things I find scary.

We must expect everything and fear everything from time and from men.

But, I'm kind of a control freak. I get really freaked out if I don't know what's going on and what's going to happen.

People struggle with moments of deep dread about life and moments of surety. Often within the course of the same day. Life is a roller coaster, especially if you take risks.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

The crimes that become iconic etch themselves into the collective consciousness because they suggest a frightening truth: that the universe does not rely on cause and effect.

Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they don't know what's going to happen to them.

I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability - the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.

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