Danny Boyle Quotes

He didn't care about the others anymore. The chaos around him seemed to siphon away his humanity, turn him into an animal. All he wanted was to survive, make it to that building, get inside. Live. Gain another day.

Just like an animal, when you want to survive, you don't think anymore.

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

In extreme danger, fear feels no pity.

When they face desperation... human beings become animals.

I have one instinct stronger than any other thing in life, and that is the instinct for survival.

Even if they don't know it, everyone has the instinct to survive.

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.

People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.

When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture.

No matter how civilized we are and how much society has curbed violent behavior. Human beings still have the same genes they had 10,000 years ago. Our bodies are designed to have a certain amount of physical stress and violence in them. We're designed to run from jaguars and fight to defend our territory.

The human being is very resourceful. When you fight for survival, you don't think much; you just do. If you think too much, you sink.

The first inclination which an animal has is to protect itself

Life comes forth for no other reason than to be and make more life. It will fight and crawl and do anything in its power to live, and once alive, it will stand against all to remain alive. Its existence is its own argument.

As a human, if you're in a scary situation, you pretty much forget about everything else! You just try and survive.

Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.

Survival," I said softly. "It's selfish, and it's dark, and we've always been a species willing to do anything to satisfy our needs. Individuals have morals. Mobs have appetites.

Survival is my primary instinct...it's out of my control. It's stronger than me. It's an outside force, a voice that says 'do this for your life or it will devour you.'

It was not well to drive men into final corners; at those moments they could all develop teeth and claws.

We are all wired into a survival trip, now.

The intelligence of the mind can't think of any reason to live, but it goes on anyway because the intelligence of the cells can't think of any reason to die.

A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.

The brain works fast when it thinks it’s about to be cut in half.

You'd be surprised at what you'd do to stay alive.