Matt Harvey Quotes

I don't have any great detail or logic or exact point that I look for in a film. It's just if I get a good sense from it and I feel that there is something interesting that we may be able to do with it, then I just kind of go for it.

Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.

I've never gone wrong trusting my gut.

I've always believed that you have to have the skills before you destroy the skills. If you want to be crude, be crude, but don't be crude because you don't know how to do it, because you're not perfect at drawing and pattern-cutting.

I just had this feeling about you," she said. "Is that foolish?" "I hope not.

I doubt Picasso ever painted a picture in an hour, he took his time, looked at every detail and made sure it was perfect.

I just followed my gut feeling when I went to Hyderabad in 2008.

I have no 'dream role.' It just comes to me; it's very intuitive, and I say, 'OK, I have to do this now.' It's not logical; just, 'I have to jump into this very strange character,' or something like that. I can't even explain it.

It is gut instinct that guides me when I say yes to a film.

What is good work? You just know it when you see it. You just can't explain it.

My gut has never let me down.

For me, casting is very instinctive, and if I don't feel good about it, I just can't go ahead and make the film.

I know when people are with me or not. It's an instinct.

I hopefully try to find people and projects that my gut instinctively points me towards, and hope that there's some type of rhyme to them later.

Some people spend their time and thoughts in feeling, hearing, seeing, and listening. Whatever cannot be felt or experienced they will not accept. We call these people 'emotional.'

Statistics rarely drive me. Feelings, intuition, and gut instinct do.

You've just got to go with your gut feeling.

I generally won't do a role unless I feel like it's in my system somewhere, even if it's just a molecule of it. Like I just felt like I knew it and if I talked about it or discussed it or tried to rehearse it that it would take away the energy from that scene so I went in there and just did it.

The shot will go smoothly only when it takes the archer himself by surprise.

We are divided between those who think with their heads and those who know with their heart. Consider Harriet Miers. If you think about Harriet Miers, of course her nomination is absurd. But the President didn't say he thought about his selection. He said this: "I know her heart." Notice how he said nothing about her brain? He didn't have to. He feels the truth about Harriet Miers.

I'm not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourself, and then sniff, sniff, sniff - being sensitive to coincidence. You can't go looking for it; you can't want it, or you won't get it. First you must lose your self. Then it happens.

Where is the stretch? Where is the perfect fit? Where does it make sense? You have to be a Baryshnikov.

In love as in art, good technique helps.

I feel it right down in my stomach when I'm in touch with something. I don't know what it is.

I've always heard that you'll know, but I never understood it. With Peter, we even broke up after we dated for a year, for two or three months, but I still knew. I knew there was something different about this union. Even through the hard times, it was like "How are we going to get through this?