Light is a powerful substance. We have a primal connection to it. But, for something so powerful, situations for its felt presence are fragile.
Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?
You don't think. It's all instinct. If you stop to think, you're gone.
When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.
When we respond to threats immediately and take action right away, it's usually the threats that we're hard-wired to respond to, the kinds of things that our ancestors survived.
Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.
True violence, not the kind you usually see in television or movies, touches something very deep and primal in people.
Revenge is the thinking man's reflex, a complex blend of action and consistency no other animal species has so far succeeded in evolving. Evolutionary speaking, the practice of taking revenge has shown itself to the so effective that only the most vengeful of us have survived.
There's something incredibly primal about facing something treacherous but doing it anyway.
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.
Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.
I don't ... like rhythm, assonance, all that stuff. You just go on your nerve. If someone's chasing you down the street with a knife you just run, you don't turn around and shout, 'Give it up! I was a track star for Mineola Prep.'
By writing a horror novel where this inexplicable disorder takes over in our ordered lives, you make order look better by comparison. But below that, there's a part of us that responds to the Who bashing their instruments to pieces on the stage. There's a very primitive part that says, "Do it some more."
Fear arises sooner than anything else.
When I'm out there, I don't think about anything. I just grip it and rip it. I don't like to worry about technique.
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.
Video is so primal. When you can hear a person talking about the project, and can see his or her passion, it is unbelievably powerful. I don't want to make it seem like projects without a video fail.
It's a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt. It's funny and accessible.
Violence is the instinctive response to fear.
The brain can be hoodwinked but not the stomach.
There's a very primal, emotional response I feel when I hear flamenco.
The reasons why images are so primal and people immediately relate to it is that we are exquisitely engineered to interpret information that is arrayed in two dimensions. That's our eyesight. That's how our eye-brain system works. So it immediately feels to us when we look at an image like we have extended our senses.
