Anxiety Quote by Hortense Powdermaker

In all of the movies and films you see, people are always in crisis because that's what we watch. We watch them deal with…

— Julianne Moore

It's almost like the psychology of a film is no different from the psychology of a person in that it has to function, it…

— Lucas Hedges

It's interesting that people bring different things to oppressive and difficult situations, when they're reduced to the barest terms of survival. That's what provides…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Crises marked by anxiety, doubt, and despair have always been those periods of personal unrest that occur at the times when a man is…

— Sheldon B. Kopp

Anxiety is a kind of fuel that activates the fight-or-flight part of the brain in me. It makes sure that a velociraptor isn't around…

— Ben Affleck

“...Anxiety and panic happen to be mundane phenomena, i.e., even when they are caused by extraordinary things like war and rape, they tend to…

— Daniel B. Smith

There was an omnipresent sense of crisis.

— Fritz Leiber

Neurotic identity crises come when our defense mechanisms have been too successful and we're encapsulated in the fortress we have constructed with nothing to…

— Sam Keen

In entertainment, we have a comfort level with crisis.

— Jane McGonigal

Hollywood movies are run on fear and they don't want to make bold choices. They, generally, speaking want to keep things status quo. That's…

— Kyra Sedgwick

In Hollywood, more often than not, they're making more kind of traditional films, stories that are understood by people. And the entire story is…

— David Lynch

“The narrative compression of storytelling, especially in the movies, beguiles us with happy endings into forgetting that sustained stress is corrosive of feeling. It's…

— Ian McEwan