Instinctive Decisions Quotes

I think, as I've gotten older, I've been able to be more reckless with my choices, because practically speaking, you get less careful. Your choices become more instinctive, and you feel like if you make a mistake, it won't destroy you.

Throughout my career I have been talked out of things I wanted to do, and when I look back, I think I should have followed my instincts.

I don't really have foresight as an actor as far as career trajectory - I just stick to no-brainer situations.

What you really need to build a character is exactly what you don't have in the movies - time. You know, movies are like a line drawing. You have to make very quick decisions, which are, in the end instinctive. Or you make a decision to say "Well, maybe I can do that, because... Oh, that could be irritating after a while, or distracting, etc. etc." Some of it is a matter of time, always.

I think, to be a director, sometimes you need to have certain hunches - you have to believe in some gut feeling.

My career wasn't planned, never had any targets. I just go by my instincts, and I think I am doing good work.

Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings.

In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.

People do all sorts of things impulsively and follow those impulses into strange places.