Not being able to go outside upsets me more than I can say, and I’m terrified our hiding place will be discovered and that we’ll be shot.
'Cabin Fever' was very much inspired by 'The Thing.' It's really a perfect guy's horror movie: There's no love story, it's just straight-up horror. And it's so well-done. It moves at a slow pace, but it's really terrific.
You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way. That's why I have to watch myself when I get isolated for too long.
Cabin Fever was murder. There was a lot of psychological stress, like not knowing if we were going to finish the movie. The day we arrived to start rehearsals, our main investors pulled out.
Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair.
I've had time off, and it drove me nuts. I was crawling up the wall.
Restless at home, and ever prone to range.
When you're on the road, you sort of go crazy and being away from your family you get stir-crazy and lonely, so I try to keep myself involved as much as possible.
This morning I shot six holes in my freezer. I think I've got cabin fever.
My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island.
Oh the long and dreary Winter! Oh the cold and cruel Winter!
We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.
The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day.
In a letter from Bath to her sister, Cassandra, one senses her frustration at her sheltered existence, Tuesday, 12 May 1801. Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other.
Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, Assumes control of fate’s immortal loom
I just lay in my room for days ... weeks.
If you're going to have a cabin fever, have a big cabin, you know.
The world's very small when you don't have anywhere to go.
Being at home gets boring. Everyone knows that.
No TV and no beer makes Homer something something.
I think Canadians make a lot of music because we're stuck inside all the time.
If I worked in my apartment, I'd never leave my apartment.
Illinois is a state of suspended animation and the people live in hibernation from Oct. to whenever it ever gets warmer.
I've had a very sheltered life. What can happen to you if you stay home writing all day?
