Gibson's type discussion

One point against Se dominant for Gibson is that he isn't very literal in his communication in the way an Se type wont to do, in fact, he was rather quite associative in interviews:

Gibson: "If you can maintain a neutrality [while approaching a character] ... then [you can] branch out from that, add on ... It's like Mr. Potato Head, slap whatever you want on it, a mustache or, you know, different attributes of a character. It's much easier to paint on a bare canvas than one that's already got a picture on it." 

Gibson: "I guess it gets almost to a question of like kind of a religion. Mecca for filmmakers is this industry here, it's where there's the biggest pool, it's the watering hole where everyone comes to see, to measure up, to include themselves in the pool, their talent, and that collective thing, it's like you go to the smorgasbord to feed your need to work and your need to tell stories and your need to express yourself [in] whatever form that is."

Gibson: "[Rising to overnight stardom is] like being a blind man walking into the woods. It takes a while to come to terms with that, this new world that you're having to exist in."

Gibson: "[Being a first time director is] like being tossed in a very big body of water and told to swim to shore. You have a general idea of which direction the shore is, but you may not get there for a long time."

Gibson: “[While improvising with Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg,] I felt like a spectator at a Beijing Ping Pong match with the flip-flapping back and forth between them that I was trying to keep up with."

RDJ: "[Accepting] responsibility for my wrongdoings and [embracing] that part of my soul that was ugly [is what Gibson calls] ‘hugging the cactus.’"

van der Hoop on Ne

If intuition is combined with an extroverted attitude, then the individual will form intuitive judgments of what goes on in the outer world and will be apt suddenly to discover connections between things without being able to explain them in a very elaborated manner. Extroverted intuitive perceptions and the actions and expressions resulting from them are sometimes surprisingly justified later on by events or by an indirect process of reasoning.

While sensation is chiefly concerned with the empirical actuality of things, intuition sees what is of noetic and ideational importance. Intuition is especially acute in discovering all the various possibilities of ideational development and activity. Even in cases where intuition is not the leading function, it is often capable of finding a solution where no other function could succeed.

Jung writes of intuition that if it predominates, all the ordinary circumstances of life seem to be enclosures out of which intuition must find a way. It is often seeking for new paths and new developments of life in an outward direction; all circumstances soon appear to the intuitive mind as a prison or as an oppression, which causes a longing for liberation.

Things in the outer world seem at times to acquire an exaggerated value when they can be made use of for the purpose of a solution, liberation, or the discovery of new possibilities. But as soon as they have served as a bridge or ladder, they seem to have lost all value and are cast aside as unnecessary lumber. A fact is only valued insofar as it may contain new potentialities that may outgrow the original fact and serve, in turn, to liberate the individual.

Possibilities that arise suddenly become compelling motives to the intuitive mind, and it will sacrifice for them everything else. In contrast with the advantages of this rich variety of possible activities, we find the disadvantages of such qualities as changeableness, fickleness, and lack of harmony.

Robert Downey Jr 's dominant Ne

Rolling Stone: "A conversation with him is a deep-space particle storm, parentheses-within-parentheses, digression upon digression, a nonlinear but not nonsensical cosmic outpouring. Downey refuses to follow any kind of script, never quite coming into focus, always in thrall to another idea. That’s the essence of his mind and spirit, and, arguably, of his genius as an actor."

Rolling Stone: "Downey’s ... meta-mega conceptual answers to basic questions ... make him hard to interview in any conventional, structured way. ... Downey has the kind of mind whose doors of perception are always unlatched, open to all sorts of farfetched possibilities. He’s fascinated by the fringes of science and conspiracy – whether there exists a language of birds, for instance. Or what the military’s really been up to at Long Island’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, where, Downey says, researchers have been conducting secret experiments to provide 'supersoldiers' with an apparatus capable of generating 'three levels' of cloaking: 'Hidden,' 'Invisible' and 'Gone.' Does Downey really believe such out-there stuff or is it, in his words, a fanciful 'hydroponic sonic' amusement? That’s unclear and probably irrelevant. He’s a mental omnivore. He’ll eat almost anything, ideawise, or he’ll at least chew on it."