Brian Herbert Quotes

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.

Most predatory animals, if you give them an inch they just go with it. Any animal - a tiger, a shark, anything - you can't act like something that is afraid of it and that's where all their predatory instincts come in.

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

The Deer don't dineWhen a Wolf's about,And the PorcupineSticks his quill-points out.

I can't run away when I'm scared. I always have to attack. That's how I deal with seemingly difficult things.

Violence is the instinctive response to fear.

I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.

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

They look at me and I kind of back up in case they go for my throat.

Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that.

When people feel threatened by you, they find something that is belittling.

The purpose of fear, clearly, is to help you get away - which it does. If your heart rate increases, there is more blood pumping so you can use that blood to fuel your muscles to run away. Oxygen is sent to the lungs so you can run fast. Pupils dilating help you see in the dark. All of that prepares your body to fight or escape.

Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.

Nerves are good. They keep you alive.

When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.

Horses are prey animals, and most of the other animals that I've shot are predators. If you act mellow with predators, they know that they can kill you, so they are cool, but if you work with prey, they think that you're going to kill them at any moment.

Any dog, you put him in the corner, no matter if they're vicious or not, they're going to bite back.

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

When I'm scared, my natural state is to hide and run for cover.

Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe because it's shameful, or, in some circumstances, dangerous. The fear response is automatic, though, and your body runs through its reflexes whether you want it to or not.

In extreme danger, fear feels no pity.

The first inclination which an animal has is to protect itself

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!'

When caught in the clutches of a predator, the jelly produces a light display that is a pinwheel of light that is basically a call for help. It serves to attract the attention of a larger predator that may attack their attacker, thereby affording them an opportunity for escape.

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