Tony Gilroy Quotes

Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.

People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

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

When we're threatened, it's very easy to appeal to our basic natures.

Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.

Once we start believing that the apocalypse is coming, the amygdala goes on high alert, filtering out most anything that says otherwise.

In extreme danger, fear feels no pity.

The first inclination which an animal has is to protect itself

What an incredible drug fear is.

We are not afraid of predators, we're transfixed by them, prone to weave stories and fables and chatter endlessly about them, because fascination creates preparedness, and preparedness, survival. In a deeply tribal way, we love our monsters.

Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.

Fear is a force that sharpens your senses. Being afraid is a state of paralysis in which you can't do anything.

When they face desperation... human beings become animals.

We are all born cowards.

It's a human desire to be scared. On some level, that's how we survived - that sense of fear and danger. Our lives are much safer, so we gravitate to those stories that makes us feel those things and learn lessons, even if it's just, 'What are you doing? Don't go in the basement!'

If people are shooting at you, it's human nature to be afraid. I was afraid. I'll be quite blunt about that.

We have this amazing ability to turn on the exactly same stress response worrying about a mortgage that a zebra does when it's sprinting away from a lion.

As a human, if you're in a scary situation, you pretty much forget about everything else! You just try and survive.

Fear arises sooner than anything else.

Human Nature Baby, grab it and growl.

Animals do have emotion. But fear tends to be one of the most primal emotions.

There is only one universal passion fear.

This is the effect of panic, a natural effect, you could say that animal nature is like this, plant life would behave in exactly the same way, too, if it did not have all those roots to hold it in the ground, and how nice it would be to see the trees of the forest fleeing the flames.

The brown monkey's instinct to kill is correct; such men are dangerous to all monkey customs.