Diane von Furstenberg Quotes

I've made a career out of playing the id: the guy that says whatever pops into his head.

I love flying by the seat of my pants, going at something instinctually.

I fly from the seat of my pants, basically.

That fundamentally undermines your ability to access the best part of your instincts. So my advice to those people would be stop thinking and introspecting so much and do a little more acting.

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

I don't plan. I don't think, 'I have to do this kind of part 'cause I've done that kind of part.' I'm not a very good planner.

I act with my gut instincts.

I love the idea of playing a character that didn't over think everything. He knows what's in front of him and he has an ability to just say whatever he felt.

I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct.

I like to do things sort of intuitively, I think.

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

I don't really plan. I'm almost intuitive about things.

I pretty much operate on adrenaline and ignorance.

We don't always know what we're doing. We often just get excited, put something down, and say, 'Oh, neat'.

I don't think through anything I do. I just do it, and it's oftentimes landed me in huge amounts of trouble.

I just sort of do what comes natural.

I don't take very calculated decisions. I just follow my heart.

I just write what I think is funny, or interesting, and hopefully everything else will take care of itself. There's no strategy to anything.

I never overthink or overanalyze anything.

Lean just follows his heart wherever it wants to go.

I feel like people can feel when something is natural. I think they can tell.

I am very mistrustful of people who are constantly over intellectualising things. It kills passion. You have to allow yourself to lose control from time to time.

It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.

The less self-conscious you are about what you are about, the better in a way, that is to say technically. You have to get it in your blood, not in the head.

To be spontaneous means not to act out of the past, because out of the past is all cunningness, cleverness, calculation, arithmetic.