Quotes About Twist

'Slow West' is a western, and it's sort of a twist on the genre stylistically, I think, from what I understand going in.

I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it.

Some of ours is so crooked they can't lay in a birth only when the trains making a curve.

I know the universe has a sense of irony, and sometimes you get reminded just how sadistic that can be.

Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen.

He said maybe irony is the lens through which we see the picture in reverse

About From Hell) The idea was to do a documentary comic about a murder. I concluded that there was a way of approaching the [Ripper] murders in a completely different way. I changed the emphasis from 'whodunit' to 'what happened'. I'd seen advertisements for Douglas Adams' book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. A holistic detective? You wouldn't just have to solve the crime, you'd have to solve the entire world that that crime happened in. That was the twist that I needed.

And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises.

What a strange pattern the shuttle of life can weave.

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.

Life's generally artless ... but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind your back, and before you know it you're in the final act of a lousy movie.

'A dog bites a man'—that's a story; 'A man bites a dog'—that's a good story...

I just watched so many Westerns as a kid that you end up using archetypes and sort of tropes of that genre, because there's a language there and you can twist it and turn it on its head or play to it or go sideways at any time.

Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.

It seems like people want to blame me for everything. Whenever any issue arises, I'm said to have been involved even if I've had nothing to do with it. That's why I always focus on what I know, which is playing football, and try to be very careful with what I say because people always try and twist things.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.

'Insidious 2' is a direct continuation of the first movie. We literally pick up from where we left off at the end of the first film. And whereas the first movie is a twist on the haunted house genre, the second movie is a twist on the classic domestic thriller.

When we were making 'Teddy Perkins,' we were playing with a lot of horror tropes and things you might've seen in movies before, but we get the ability to subvert expectations or get a comedic element out of a horror moment.

As this sales representative discovered, when individuals dress up as organizations, sometimes they twist, exaggerate, or even defy the letter or spirit of the real rules, and will try to belittle, dismiss, frustrate, or ignore you, because they are insecure, lazy, on a power trip, or plagued by other personal quirks. But once you out them, their house of cards just might collapse.

an ending must be both "inevitable and unexpected.

Turning Points fail when we overprepare the obvious and underprepare the unusual.

Tawney added an additional twist by suggesting that 'nascent capitalism . . . [shaped] Calvinism's attitude to enterprise and the accumulation of wealth, not vice versa'.