Quotes About Instinct

You read a script, and you know if you need to do it.

I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain.

An experienced slush-pile reader doesn't need more than a few seconds to see if a story has potential. You don't need to eat all of a rotten egg to determine that it's rotten.

Whatever I see, I trust my eyes, trust my reads, trust the guys running routes and kind of just let it go.

If you sit at your desk and reach and grab a cup of coffee, you don't look directly at the cup, focus on it, and get your fingers lined up before grabbing the coffee. In real life, you reach for a cup that you see out of the corner of your eye, and when you feel it, you know you can grab it.

The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum physics; we may intellectually grasp it, but it will never feel right to us.

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

Because I didn't go to drama school, I didn't start in the business with any toolbox apart from enthusiasm and instinct. I'd throw everything at a part and sometimes realise that I had hit my limits.

I had long had an instinct about there being a role for me in a creative industry. Maybe I didn't listen to that voice as much earlier on, but when it had become a deafening sound in my head I realised I had to go and explore it.

You can't think; you just gotta do things.

We didn't name Birdie before she was born. When she came out I said, 'I think we gotta go with Birdie, I think that's her name.'

If you are going to lower me into the grave, and I feel something is wrong, I will get up.

People always choose self-preservation over the greater good, most of the time, with the belief that self-preservation is the greater good.

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

You and I probably wouldn't be here if our ancestors hadn't been greedy savages.

Animals are completely grounded in their root chakra.

For me, singing is the most natural thing in the world. I've grown up with it and I know I've got that gift.

Sometimes you're not sure about a player. Sometimes you doubt. Sometimes you have to guess. Sometimes... you just know.

The heart, not the head, must be the guide.

Your gut is always right.

My gut has never let me down.

I've learned to really just trust my gut and to go with what I really feel inside.

I make movies based on gut.

I just go with my gut.