Film Anxiety Quotes

You do feel kind of nervous about any film you take on.

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

As an actor, I felt nervous only during the release of my film. When I became a director, the anxious moments started once the editing work began.

I have a really difficult time watching myself on film. I literally cower in my seat and cover my face.

That is the greatest source of my anxiety on this film [The Hobbit], is that I'm going to be lynched.

There are endless anxieties in putting a film together, and it's an enormous relief when you know it's working with an audience.

You show a movie to your friends when you're working on it, but you don't have any real objectivity. You just don't know. So that moment when it's shown for the very first time at Sundance, it's just terrifying. I'm so anxious. And then every screening is different.

I've done quite a few films that are based on books, and it's always nerve-wracking because there's an audience who has read and loved the book, and what if they see the movie and hate it?

I do get nervous and excited whenever I do a film.

I didn't want 'Hotel Transylvania' to be the nail in the coffin for cartoony animation. Because if the movie failed, I could see people blaming that aspect of it. I was really nervous about that.

Hugh Grant, who several times has announced that he was thinking of retiring from acting, has said that he suffers from panic attacks when the cameras start rolling.

I'm vomiting days before I start shooting a new movie.

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

There's something a lot more self-conscious feeling when there's cameras coming in for close-ups. It makes you very aware.

That's always the actor's worst nightmare: that what they're working on is going to be the last thing they'll ever work on. No lie. So I was very excited to land 'Girlfriends' Guide' immediately.

It is scary for me to do a film by directly showing up on the sets without any preparation.

You're always nervous about how a film lands with an audience.

Once I got so worried because I had to hit my costar with a glass bottle that I began crying.