Quotes About Intrigue

There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention.

For some weird reason, people have a fascination with Laura Palmer.

My favorite thing about daytime, and 'Days' in particular, is that the door is always open for characters to reappear no matter how they left.

I saw a limit to what I was giving as kind of a scam I was running on the KGB, by giving them people that I knew were their double agents fed to us.

It's not often that I'm being called femme fatale.

I would love to love Saul Bellow, but by page fifty of 'Herzog', something within me has wandered into another room.

The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try.

I cannot explain something that no one has ever figured out.

I'm not as clever as J.J. Abrams and those guys who fill it with all of these things for people to find.

Before filming 'The Crown,' I couldn't care less about the royal family. But now... I'm obsessed.

I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.

When you can't put your finger on it, that's the most exciting stuff.

After finishing 'The Book of Life,' I needed a bit of a break from the Bishops and de Clermonts. Honestly, I wasn't sure when - or even if! - they would capture all of my attention again.

I've always wanted to go to Timbuktu. First of all I think it has the best name of anywhere in the world.

I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things.

I think that scandal and intrigue and all of those sort of things that occur behind closed doors - whether it's on the Hill or in the White House - people all find intriguing.

Let's face it, the White House is a treacherous place.

I'm not supposed to talk about the snail. The snail is, well, congratulations to whoever noticed it. It's supposed to be a thing where you gotta look for it in every episode, and it's there three times in every episode.

I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.

The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings.

If I am offered a biopic on a person people know almost everything about, what is the point doing it? A film on someone about whom very less is known is something that would interest me.

Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction.

Without bureaus, committees, officials or emissaries to manufacture sentiment in his favor, without intrigue or effort on his part, Grant is the candidate whose supporters have never threatened to bolt.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.