Everything I do in my life is very instinctual and in the moment. If I'm attracted to something, that's it. If I have reservations, those don't change till they're resolved. My first impression is how I go.
I've always been a believer in research. It's great to have an instinctual human reaction to a character, too, of course, but it has to be countered with knowledge and understanding.
The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.
I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.
Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.
Steve Jobs was Galileo in a past life. Discovery was instinctual for him.
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
I like being independent; I like doing things myself. I'm an instinctual person.
It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a visceral, gut thing. When the action starts, it's best to turn the brain off and let it become an instinctual thing.
I find that the acting's getting easier - with experience, everything is more instinctual.