Quotes About Intuition

I can say yes to some directors without even reading a script. But the first-time directors I've worked with, the scripts have not been perfect, but they had something that I liked.

I don't understand scripts really well, but I do whatever my heart tells me.

You know within three seconds if you're going to have a history with someone - it's a long half-hour if you've got it wrong.

I tell the story by feel most of the time, and I am not much given to labyrinthian digressions but seem to be naturally drawn to compression and pace, and the feelings come about on their own.

I always followed my heart and if my heart said I gotta pack up and go, I'm gone.

I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'

I saw things before they happened, and that scared me very much. The premonitions would always be accompanied by harsh and painful physical sensations.

You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.

If I paint something, I don't want to have to explain what it is.

When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I'm its servant; it's not mine. I'm doing what it wants.

I've dreamed landscapes for years, and my dreams play an enormous role in my work. In fact, when I first started doing landscapes I felt insecure about painting in this style, and the dreams were like positive omens for me, and I've done a few paintings that were exact replicas of images that came to me in dreams.

I've had encounters with animals that have been really mystical. I've always been really into animals. But the way they appear in the paintings, they come from my mind's eye more than: 'I'm gonna draw a dog now.' It isn't thought out: 'Now I'm gonna draw a bird.' They just appear.

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

Sometimes the songs just come to me. I don't sit down to write like you'd sit down to make a pair of boots.

Sometimes you wake up with mini panic attacks where you feel like 'Oh my God! I don't have a film right now! Should I just do something that comes my way because I don't have another film?' But I feel at the end of the day, your gut takes over.

I love flying by the seat of my pants, going at something instinctually.

I operate by the seat of my pants.

I fly from the seat of my pants, basically.

Everything I do is just really my intuition, and every time I go against my intuition, it's a mistake. Even though I may sit down and analyze and intellectualize something on paper, if I go against my gut feeling, it's wrong.

The woman I'm attracted to won't be based on what I write down on paper. It's going to be what I feel.

Sometimes things just fall out of your head on the paper, and if you're smart, you learn not to touch them.

Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!'

I have this blanket thing about giving parenting advice to parents, and that's: 'Don't take other people's advice on parenting.'