Quotes About Instinct

It's not like I don't have my own wants and dreams anymore - it's just that the kids come first. It's primal.

The expressive body is not literal; it's very primal, and that's what I feel when I make the best of my work. It's coming from a primal place rather than an intellectual place.

I definitely love to be scared. It draws the primal side out of you.

The desire to abdicate, to give up - for me, that's primal.

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

I love football and basketball but fighting is the original, most primitive to our nature.

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

When eyes were first developed in animals, suddenly animal life becomes proactive.

We don't know the probabilities of future events. Still, you have to take action, and so you do it on gut feeling. That's the world we live in.

I think there's always going to be a problem dealing with firearms, with knives. It's the animal we are that cause the problems.

Most business problems, you will have an intuitive idea on what to do.

There is indeed the possibility that the evolutionary process has, in gray antiquity, bred into us an excess of aggression.

I can only go with my gut and say what I would like to do, and then my producer comes in and makes it happen.

Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.

My talent is definitely a gift. I don't understand where it comes from. I don't play an instrument, and I never went to school for music production, but I know exactly how a song should sound and how to give an artist direction.

In the same way, there is some creature gnawing away inside of me, urging me to do things in different ways.

I really think truth comes from the body. When you're running for your life, you breathe differently; you talk differently.

I only direct in self-defense.

I decide intuitively what I want to do. When directors like Imtiaz Ali, Ayan Mukerji, Anurag Basu and Anurag Kashyap, who have stories to tell, come to me, why would I not be a part of it?

I think I was always interested in animals. If a man likes a woman, you know, he might discuss business, but there's a part of his brain that is looking at the girl coming in and checking the girls. I do the same with animals.

Whenever I've done anything where I feel like, 'Oh, it would be smart to do that,' it's always been a mistake. Whenever I do the 'Oh, it would be fun to do that,' it's always paid dividends.

I hate to admit it, but anytime you're at a stoplight and your phone is within reach? You pick it up. It's become instinctual. Even if you put the phone down and walk out of the room, you're always aware of where it is. It's become an extension of you.

If I don't get the goose-bump factor when I'm reading it than I can't do it.