Elodie Yung 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.

The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.

When it comes to my work, I'm fearless. I go with my gut.

I make all my decisions by listening to my instinct and then keeping my fingers crossed it will lead to a good place.

I completely follow my gut and do what I like doing. I have become impulsive in a good way. I am taking creative risks as an actor.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

I think good artists know when they're on a roll, and they recognize when lightning is striking. It's a very fortunate thing to have that inspiration and not to overanalyze it or mess with it; you just follow it if you love what you do.

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.

Warren Buffet told me once and he said always follow your gut. When you have that gut feeling, you have to go with don't go back on it.

I don't tend to question things that much. If it feels right, I go for it.

If I'm hesitant at all about an idea, then that's not the right idea.

In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it.

I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.

For years, I was watching other people have so much fun playing out their version of authorship, like Louis C.K. and Larry David. As I watched them do their thing, I began to pine for the days when I had a lot less expected of me and, often, a lot more creative freedom. The courage that those guys have is always captivating to me.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.

I always tried to play my hunches.

I'm pretty gutsy. Dancers don't think about things; they just do them.

It's good to go with your gut instincts in life. You just should. Even if it doesn't work out, something good will come out of it.

Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.

I'm very spontaneous. I go with my gut.

I've never been one to carefully calculate my career decisions, to sit on the outside looking in. I go with my passion and what moves me.

What I would say to filmmakers, if I may be so bold or so arrogant, is to draw inspiration from other filmmakers, but go to the place in your own gut where everything is nothing. That's a very Zen thing to say, but that place of nothing is where real creativity comes out of.

I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.