Timothy Hutton: What is your greatest fear?

Originally asked

Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Timothy Hutton said elsewhere, not written here

Lack of purpose.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2015 source ↗

Others on this question

Kellie Maloney Retired boxing manager, promoter and politician

Losing my family.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 August 2024 source ↗

Paul Merson English footballer and pundit

Going back to addiction.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 January 2023 source ↗

Not being able to work.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 February 2026 source ↗

Seth Meyers American comedian and TV host

Running out of ideas.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2015 source ↗

Playing catch with my son Noah at Fenway Park.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2015 source ↗

Chuck Feeney (the James Bond of philanthropy).

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2015 source ↗

An arbitrary contrarian.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2015 source ↗

Making trails and building a tree house.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 11 March 2015 source ↗

Search the directory for somebody in particular.