Todd Haynes Quotes

When you're up for an award at the Oscars, try as you might, it's hard to concentrate on the show.

It's nerve wracking being in the stadium with so many people supporting.

The red carpet is really the only thing that makes me nervous.

When I start a movie, the first day, I feel like a duck.

Since this our first show, I think they'll see us sweat a lot.

For the most part, these awards shows, while they are fun, they're high-pressure for the people who are nominated and for those walking the red carpet.

Hosting the Oscars is pretty much the scariest thing you can do. To me, this is right up there with bungee jumping!

Before the release of my film, small or big, the feeling is always the same.

Fear is excitement without breath.

I have had the auditioning process go on for two weeks or three weeks. I am always incredibly anxious. The audition and the wait is definitely the hardest part for me.

I'm more nervous about doing this than anything I've ever done before, because it is so prestigious.

I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is.

I get nervous when I don't get nervous. If I'm nervous I know I'm going to have a good show.

Being on the red carpet is both fun and a little nerve wracking, but more fun.

Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.'

Like most people - unless they're very practised at it or have no warm blood at all in their veins - I feel a little apprehensive about the red carpet. It's always a bit bewildering when people are taking pictures and asking questions before the ceremony.

There's always a bit of nerves that come with expectations and new situations.

Every time another review comes out I let out a deep breath.

It's just so overwhelming to think, 'OK, the whole world is watching this!'

When people say they aren't nervous, I think they are lying about it. If you are human and you love the game, before any competition you still get those same butterflies in the stomach.

I am very excited about 'Raees.' But more than this, I am nervous, too. It feels like I am under pressure to show my acting skills.

There were so many emotions on 'Idol' with nervousness and pressure, but in good ways.

Yes, I am nervous before a film's release and withdraw into a shell.

Every job still feels like the first time.

The anxiety is, "Are they going to come?" and when you get there and it's full you say, "I'm good. I can stop freaking out." But when it's four days out and they're scrambling to find more radio shows and Good Morning Phoenix and all these weird shows, then that gets very tiring.