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Being stuck in a project that’s not challenging me, or true to my nature.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 March 2023 source ↗
The question
What do you fear most?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.
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Getting thrown down a well.
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I fear the arrogance we are all at risk of, the pride that pushes us to put “I” in place of “God”. More prosaically, I fear physical pain because it risks stripping us of our dignity.
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Being hard on myself. I don’t want to pass that on to my daughters, so I’m trying to stop.
Making films exactly how I wanted.
Two weeks before shooting – after some of our financing dropped out – when the producers said I had to cut a week’s worth of scenes out of my script. I was on location and away from my daughters [currently in middle and high school] who I felt were needing a mother.
An Elizabeth Peyton painting.
To a girl we were mean to in first grade.
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