Michael Giacchino Quotes

I think most of us become self-critical as soon as we become self-conscious.

Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself.

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

I don't watch my movies. I just get too critical of myself.

Years of standing in the limelight portraying other people for large amounts of money does not usually lead to a high degree of self-examination, let alone self-criticism.

I'm always my worst critic.

The horrible thing about being me is that I have a very good eye about what people look like. Even me.

Fortunately, I've never had to be too critical of my own work, because the world is critical enough.

I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.

Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.

I really can't watch myself. I just get too in my head about it and start overthinking everything.

I really dislike watching myself on screen. I am very insecure about my acting. We are our own biggest critics. I have to sit in another room to my parents when they watch it.

I'm wonderfully self-lacerating, probably to my character's detriment. I'm terribly open to critique.

I must congratulate myself, in passing, for never having lost the ability to examine my conscience, never having lost the gift of finding myself wanting & defective. Why fear the criticism of others when you, yourself, are first out of the critical gate? If self-denigration is the race I am the winner, even before the starting gun. Collect the bets.

I often don't see what I've done, or I cringe when I watch myself.

It's more important to know your weaknesses than your strengths.

When I direct and have to look at filmed scenes of myself, I suck.

Maybe sometimes I have been wrong with some movies. Anyway, I try to do my best.

I don't get into that second guessing of myself publicly.

I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.

I have the worst ear for criticism; even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle who says she doesn't like blue.

Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don't ignore that critic but don't give it more attention than it deserves.

If I can avoid looking at myself, I will. I don't care to examine myself or see much of what I do. I never care how I look.

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

I'm so super-critical of everything that I do.