Quotes About Intrigue

I don't want to be understood because if people understand me, they get tired of me.

Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call 'motivation.'

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined.

I've always been attracted to the underworld.

The idea of love as a mysterious, undiscovered world has come to have no place in our innermost imagination.

People are intrigued but also scared about things that are uneasy.

Charm is a product of the unexpected.

Expect the unexpected, is what I'd say about 'Taboo.'

The detective genre is not easy because you've got to get to a conclusion that is unexpected.

I like playing characters that are complex, that are intriguing, that come from left field, that do things that are unexpected. I don't like people who just follow one line and that's it - that's why I could never be in a sitcom, I don't think. They're not intriguing enough for me.

A lot of unexpected things do happen on 'Mr. Robot.'

For something like 'Line of Duty' to work, it has to be both plausible and unexpected.

Everyone has a side to them that's kind of unexplained and feels misunderstood.

Being able to elicit the feeling of the unfathomable in intelligent adults is like falling in love.

Anybody great, we're all interested in the relics. If you found an unfinished Gauguin, you'd still want to see it.

It's not that I don't enjoy a good mystery that comes and goes in a hour. I do, but God, 'Breaking Bad' and 'Saul' unfold like novels.

Everything's always about page-turning, right? What's next? So, if you create questions for audiences, then they'll want to know the answer. Or they begin to formulate possible outcomes. That's the game we play when we're hearing a story unfold. That's part of what sucks us into a movie.

As the plot of 'Condor' unfolds, you'll understand that nothing is sacred in the pharmacy world or in the behind-the-scenes workings of the CIA and FBI.

To respect a mystery is to make way for the answer.

Goodness is funny because it draws you to it while curiously possessing you with the untrammelled desire to turn it into something bad.

If all was told, supposing there lived a person who could tell all, there would be no mysteries left, and the would be very bad. Man cannot live without mystery. He had a great need of it.

Smile out loud! Make them wonder.

There's just something about vampires that's sexy...It's the same reason why women go for the bad boy - you want them but you shouldn't have them.

The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.