Quotes About Instinct

People see a hungry face, and they want to feed it; that's a natural response.

Men are like lions. We hunt.

If a hamster has too many babies she knows she cannot carry, she not only abandons them, but she eats them. That means she doesn't have to go out and hunt for food for herself.

Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?

I am a born hunter, like my father, my grandfather, and every man of my family before them.

For me, hunting is a natural fact rather than a choice.

I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.

It's really easy to project this whole ideology of what being an artiste is, and I'm just not down with intellectualizing it. I just think, if you feel like doing something, then do it.

To sit idly, not doing, merely experiencing, comes hard to a primate.

I like to go with the energy because when you ignore it that's when you start doing things wrong.

The cavemen, when they saw the antelopes, they had to scratch them on to the caves because they needed to express the immediacy of what they were being affected by - and I love that. That is why I do what I do. I need to express myself.

I feel a connection to many songs that I won't sing because I don't think they are right for me! There is something in my gut that immediately responds. There's no science to it.

The moment I walk into a room, I have kind of like the Terminator's tracking system for where the food is, and I can get there immediately.

I read a script and I know immediately whether that role is for me or not.

Self-preservation is an important thing to me.

I would tell any aspiring designer to take the time to experience everything they can to really get a feel for what direction they want to go in. And most importantly, let your passion and your gut lead you.

Sometimes I'll read an audition and I'll get a very strong first impression about who the person is, and I usually go with it.

If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!

I don't think of sex as a self-destructive impulse.

I've always had this impulse to be destructive.

Some deeper part of me wants to write comical dialogue; I'd be foolish to not follow that impulse. Now I recognize that if there's energy to a section of work, you go where the energy is. It's a living thing, and you just follow it.

People do all sorts of things impulsively and follow those impulses into strange places.

When we were putting together 'One Of Us,' we were just following our impulses and what felt good.

Impulses are hard to come by these days.