Graydon Carter Quotes

Listen to advice, but follow your heart.

I've only ever trusted my gut on everything. I don't trust my head, I don't trust my heart, I trust my gut.

Trust your gut.

I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.

I just choose the scripts I want to work on. I don't know why. It's not something conscious or that I'm doing on purpose.

The single best machine to measure trust is a human being. We haven't figured out a metric that works better than our own sort of, like, 'There's something fishy about you.'

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.

I act with my gut instincts.

The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient.

I've always made my decisions based on two factors: intellectual analysis and my gut. And when they meet, that's a go from me. That's when I see the goal.

You must trust your instinct, intuition and judgment.

Is instinct in the head or in the heart? Off the field, I follow my good instincts which steer me in the right direction. Sometimes on the field my head leads me astray. That's what I believe.

Everything that I do is for sound goals. It comes from my gut. When I'm sitting in the studio, a mix isn't done till I feel it in my gut.

Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.

Sometimes, I work a little more from emotion than I do from rational thought.

Intuition is reason in a hurry.

You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.

When it comes to the ratings, I don't know what the rating system is. So when it comes to me, I've learned, with the little experience that I have, that when I feel really good about a movie in the editing room, it works. And when I've felt like a movie wasn't working, it didn't work.

I have an intuition, and usually my intuition is right. I have a feeling for whether a role will be good or bad for me, and I almost never make a mistake.

Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs.

Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.

I don't make decisions with my head anymore. If I don't get the go ahead with my gut, I usually back out.

Most of my choices come about through some kind of intuition or instinct, and if I need to, I'll post-rationalize them, intellectually, afterwards. But generally, they come about just by feeling.

Most of the time, I see what I see, I search my feelings, and then I make my decisions based on my gut - and I don't always make the right ones.

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.