Personal Instinct Quotes

After 'Muriel's Wedding,' I first went to America, and I was sent all these scripts about fat girls overcoming hurdles. Something in me knew not to go down that road, even if it was a good script.

Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can't learn what's right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you.

Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.

Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says "Do this."

Always listen to your inner voice, your instincts

I've learned to really just trust my gut and to go with what I really feel inside.

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

I always say that when it comes to picking a single, firstly you have to go with what feels right and what your gut tells you.

I look for scripts that give me a gut feeling that this is going to work.

When I watch my early documentaries, they're very eclectic. They don't follow any particular [pattern]. I would have gotten thrown out of film school because I didn't. I was just putting them together somehow as the spirit moved me, following my nose, thinking I was brilliant.

My business skills have come from being guided by my inner self - my intuition.

It's in my blood to be on the radio every day. I've done it since I was 16 years old.

You have to follow your instinct all the time. Otherwise you don't make it.

To be honest with you, the forest resonates with me more, like instinctually, than the sea does.

It's all complete instinct and intuition, and that's extremely difficult to teach.

With agents, I've learned to bring them into the process when I feel confident. You're the only one that can really know what's right for your career. You're on a wing and a prayer through most of it.

Outside advice can only tell you how a decision looks. Only you can know how it feels. The best decisions look and feel right.

It is our business to go as we are impelled.

You have to believe in yourself and only trust your own vision and instincts. If I'd listened to what other people thought about my work in the first 10 years that I was a writer, I never would have made it to begin with.

Follow the tugs in your heart. I think that everybody gets these gentle urges and should listen to them. Even if they sound absolutely insane, they may be worth going for.

The only real mistake here is ignoring the inner voice.

I've always believed in making films that you make the little decisions with your head, but you make the big decisions with your heart.

I've totally learned in this process that 99% of the time, your gut is right, and you know what's right for you. I know exactly what's right for my career and for my art, and sometimes, even if the whole room is saying, 'Don't do that, don't do that,' you know that doing that is going to be good for you, in the long run.

I follow my instincts. Maybe I'd be more successful in my business and my private life if I did things like everybody else. But I just feel like I'm different from everybody else.

I wasn't part of any movement. I was working alone, following my instinct.