Victor Salva Quotes

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

I remember one time watching a bird snatch a dragonfly out of midair and thinking, 'Gee, life can come to an end - crunch! - just like that.'

I think anybody with an insecurity, which is everyone, appreciates the fact that it's much easier to be a predator than it is to be prey.

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.

We're interested in things that have big teeth, and you can see the evolutionary value of that, and you can also see the practical consequences by watching 'Animal Planet.' You notice they make very few programs about gerbils. It's mostly about things that have big teeth.

Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

I don't think anyone can be more of a predator than a human being.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.

It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.

Many cats are the death of the mouse.

Big fish eat little fish.

Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow.

The wolf asketh not how many the sheep may be.

Life is a dangerous thing. Insecurity is the price of living.

Unlike your fish tank, in nature, fish eat each other. When the population of a species gets too low, it will die out.

I prefer to be hunted compared to the other way around... I don't know how you say it.

Most wives look at me the way lame deer look at a hungry lion.

We have fear as soon as we are born, we are born into a state of physical helplessness.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.

Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.

Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.

All fear violence, all are afraid of death.

Creatures which, lacking mankind's superior brain power, did not concern themselves with finding someone to blame, and instead tried to find someone to eat.