Quotes About Doubt

A lecturer once told me I could never be a director. I was 16. I believed him.

I don't even know if I can call myself a director.

I don't know, you know, when I look at it now, I don't know what in the world made me think I could become a director. I really don't.

There are times when directors just don't know what they're doing.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

I would hate to see the idea of freedom disappear, and I wonder if maybe it will.

I do tend to wake up in the middle of the night convinced I've made a disaster.

A lot of people want to discredit me.

Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.

I am my biggest critic. Even in films where people said they liked me, I have disliked myself.

Before Arthur, I'd dismissed altogether writing fiction. You only have so many semi-sharp arrows in your quiver, I'd told myself, and I was not going to be able to write a novel.

Your doubts are generated by fear, and fear is a series of distorted thoughts.

I have a worry of people not liking me. I get scared walking into a room first, so I have to have people walk in before me so then people are distracted. It's hard.

I didn't even think anyone would want to make 'Cop Car,' and then I didn't think anyone would want to distribute 'Cop Car,' and then I didn't think anyone would want to see 'Cop Car.'

I'm trying to learn to ask myself: 'Before you dive in are you sure you are right?' It's always safe to assume I'm wrong.

I was raised Catholic, and I knew of Him and certainly what He did, but I never truly experienced knowing Him.

I can't pick up the phone to everybody that doubts me and explain myself.

I was afraid to express myself for a while.

There have been makeup artists who've asked if my eyebrows are real.

No one believed me when I said it was possible to put fabric in resin.

I'm afraid to fail again.

The one way of guaranteeing to fail is to assume that we will.

There are people out there who want me to fail, who want Jude to fail, who want our relationship to fail.

It was a big decision to leave the system because many people said I would fail.