Peter Jackson Quotes

For the first six or eight months at Juilliard I felt paralysed. I didn't know what I was doing.

There are times when I do feel very nervous when I start a film. And I feel very nervous before the release. I do get stuck in some scenes, but that's very natural and human. It happens to all the artistes in the world.

When I first started as an editorial cartoonist, I was terrified on a daily basis. Filling that hole the next day, knowing that tens of thousands of people were going to expect something funny. There is still that pressure, but you kind of learn how to cope with it a little better.

Pressure is an emotional paralysis. It's hard enough to do the dishes when you're feeling pressured, let alone make a movie.

For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.

I'm always nervous before starting a record because I can never sleep. I'm like, 'I have no good ideas, everyone is gonna see through me.'

I really personalized the pressure to make a good 'Toy Story' film. It made me physically sick at the beginning. Literally, I wanted to throw up in the morning because I was just so racked with stress.

I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart attack. The anxiety would be way too much for me. I don't have as strong a backbone as those other show writers.

The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.

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 go to bed every night worried about getting back into baseball.

Auditioning for 'Philomena' was such a traumatic experience because I had three callbacks, and I was absolutely positive that I was just an option.

When I first started with 'Twilight,' I didn't have any experience. I didn't know what I was doing. So I was pretty intimidated by the editors and the publishers, and I felt like I was a kid in school with the principal telling me what to do! It was hard for me.

Writing on assignment, with lots of money handed to you before you even began, got very scary for me. My dread of not being perfect, something I got from a childhood surrounded by powerful, successful people, began to infect everything I wrote.

I normally feel relief that I didn't die onstage or forget all my lines. Then I start remembering that I have to do it again sometime, and it'll probably not go as well.

My performance level has risen - and my anxiety-level has sky-rocketed.

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

I want to keep pushing myself so I never feel settled. I don't really know if it's going to end up working. I'm stressed out most of the time.

Every time I'm shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don't see the light in the end of the tunnel.

If you're feeling pressure, then you shouldn't be here.

Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.

Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what you're doing.

I'm intimidated every day I go on the stage and everyday I go on a movie set. It's terrifying and I always want to reshoot the first day or the first week, I'm so terrified.

I was always worried with comedy - what if I came to work and I wasn't in a funny mood? That hasn't been an issue.

I'm always very scared when I start a movie because I never know if I'm going to be able to do a good job or do a very bad job.