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I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack.

It felt scary because there was no auditioning, no rehearsing.

I'm a big fan of being scared I like being scared. I like being involved in a film that will make audiences scared, that intrigues me.

Probably the biggest challenge for me as a director was to not show how scared I was. I was surrounded by some of the most talented people in the industry, and I had to pretend I knew what I was doing.

I was a scared kid... I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find a way transferring my own private horrors to everyone else's lives. It was less of an escape and more of an exorcism.

I was terrified of being on stage, and I had to work very hard at a craft to get past that.

I was always shy and had a huge fear of being onstage.

There's something really fun about being scared, and I guess that was at least part of why I wanted to film certain scenes from my new book, 'Skeleton Creek.'

Through film, I realized that was a safe place for me to play. It was a safe place for me to express myself and explore these things that I was afraid to explore in my real life.