Sofia Boutella Quotes

Reason is the servant of instinct.

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.

I'm not one to intellectualize why I did something.

If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance with his instincts, he will accept it even on the slenderest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.

Sweet instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs.

That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.

Art does not come from thinking but from responding.

Jealousy, greed, fear. We're all full of these things. But also love and compassion. If you saw a drowning baby, it wouldn't matter if you were wearing a tuxedo on the way to your own wedding. You'd jump in to save him.

I am a very instinct-driven person.

I don't take very calculated decisions. I just follow my heart.

Life's so much based on instincts and quick decisions, and people don't know what they're looking for.

My gut instincts are strong, but they're not always accessible to me, which is why I like DJing, because you don't have time, and you have to go on instinct.

I do a lot of things instinctively.

I basically go with whatever my gut tells me.

As humans, we are not so rationalist as we think we are. I think our biggest quality is indeed that we are human, truly human: if our biggest quality would be rationality, we would lose our soul.

I go by my gut feeling.

I've found in the past that if we planned the show a night before, once we slept and woke up, we weren't in that mood anymore. Because I really think doing a live show means you should be exploring your live feelings, and planning is not good.

I surely don't think ignorance is bliss. But like everything else that has survived thousands of years of human evolution, ignorance - like denial, self-delusion, and magical thinking - seems to have its uses.

I go by my instincts. It's whatever I feel in the scene in the moment.

The moment always dictates in my work. What I feel, I do. This is the most important thing for me. Everybody can look, but they don't necessarily see. I never calculate or consider; I see a situation and I know that it's right, even if I have to go back to get the proper lighting.

I didn't even know what I did in 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape'. I just went off with whatever I felt instinctually without a second thought.