Quotes About Intrigue

I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.

I love a big, character-rich story with a dark heart, with a compelling mystery or some kind of ticking clock at its center. I want to be lured in by prose, captured by character, and bound by stellar plotting to keep turning the pages.

I want readers turning pages until three o'clock in the morning. I want the themes of books to stick around for a reader. I'm always trying to find a way to balance characters and theme.

Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens. So I can do that.

Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens.

When I'm channel surfing, and 'Silence of the Lambs' comes on, I have trouble turning it off. I wouldn't say that about 'Beautiful Mind.' It's a good movie, but I'm much more in awe of what Jonathan Demme did with 'Silence of the Lambs.'

I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter.

Despite the sometimes sordid turns his life took, Michael Jackson always held my fascination, like he did for most of us.

I think that people are fascinated with the stories, with human nature and the dark turns it can take.

I loved singing something like 'I've Got My Eye On You' when it's really about the FBI. It turns a love song into something else!

I hate to go to movies or watch a TV show and know the ending within 15 minutes.

Growing up, my favorite TV show was 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.', hands down.

'The East' could easily be a TV show.

I romanticized about it in my twenties, but I don't think I would have enjoyed being a spy. I worry too much.

I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, I love to fool you a third time. And just when you think it's all over, I have what I call that Carrie hand-out-of-the-grave moment. Just when you think it's all over, I'm going to hit you with just one more. I can't help myself.

Woody [Allen] is a fascinating character to be around. You don't really know what he's going to want. You're on your toes, but you're on your heels too, if you know what I mean.

In fact, I think more broadly about what an audience requires, but I want an audience to be fascinated by the process of finding an answer, or finding out there isn't one.

I'm from the theater, darling. I want to know what happens at the end.

It was so weird, because usually I was totally nervous talking to guys. But Eli was different. He made me want to say more, not less. Which was maybe not a good thing.

Let me guess, Velkan wants to see me? (Esperetta) No. The only thing His Highness would like to see in regards to you, Princess, is your disembowelment. (Raluca)

Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.

My God! What is there in this place that a man should ever want to get into it?

My easiest judgment for a script is 'do I want to keep reading it?'

Okay, Shane," Agnes said as Brenda's clock gonged midnight. "I got Joey in the kitchen, a cop in the front hall, a dead body in the basement, and you in my bedroom. Where do you want to start?