Quotes About Instinct

People from Brooklyn grow up with a certain common sense. If it doesn't ring true, it's not true.

I always compare human beings to animals. It's a nice way to figure out who they are.

I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.

For kids it's natural to be competitive.

My compulsion is to create things.

Before being a person, man is an animal, with all its reptilian compulsions. And if at some point you block the conscious part of the mind, you've got all the reptilian compulsions that come out.

I'm compulsive.

I think that maybe human beings are conditioned to violence.

Some might argue humans are hard-wired to fight. I don't agree: we are conscious beings who have the capacity to make decisions.

I surround myself with great people. I listen to what they have to say. But at the end of the day, I rely on my gut.

When we started NFL Films, there were no focus groups, there were no demographic studies, there were no surveys. Every decision that we made, we made with our hearts, not with our heads. And, in the very beginning, we really didn't even have a business plan.

Fear is always there; it's a survival instinct. You just need to know how to manage it.

Before being humans with morals, people are mostly animals, fighting for domination and survival.

The human young must learn to perceive these affordances, in some degree at least, but the young of some animals do not have time to learn the ones that are crucial for survival.

When I'm pressured, I have to click into survival mode.

My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.

I think the default position of humans is to be terrible, and we have to train it out of our children. That's just part of survival, right? Predator animals don't survive by being nice; humans are basically predator animals.

It's a survival thing. I don't do anything to be artistic or just because I like it.

We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.

I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation.

Every story I do is about people. It's my survival instinct - one person, one story.

I fight on emotions. When I don't fight on emotions, I don't fight well. I fight on emotion, because I'm in for survival.

I'm absolutely an amoeba. It's my survival value.

There are certain rules one must abide by in order to succesfully survive a horror movie.