Quotes About Mystery

I don't want to expose the intricacies of my work so people can understand how I did it.

I seldom try to probe the mystery of my sloth. I have squandered a gigantic fortune of work hours... seems likely that I'll go on squandering till the very end.

All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way.

The universe does not work by our rules

I wondered over again for the hundredth time what could be the principle which, in the wildest, most lawless, fantastically chaotic, apparently capricious work of Nature, always kept it beautiful.

Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.

You know what, we don't know diddley squat about brains and no one has a clue how these things work, so don't believe what anyone tells you.

The thing with Stephen King is that everyone dies, and everyone comes back to life. So you never know with his mind where things go. It's the same with Steven Spielberg, too.

I actually got reprimanded by Stevie Nicks, who was like, 'You're sharing too much! You need to leave an air of mystery.'

And I have to say, for the record, my favorite line from 'Without A Clue' is after Michael Caine pokes a dead body with a stick and announces to everyone, 'It is my opinion that this man is dead.'

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it.

Now that we are used to globalisation it's hard to imagine a time when the countries behind the iron curtain were largely obscured from the western gaze. The Soviet bloc was a genuine mystery. Such was the dehumanisation of the Soviets that Sting could wonder in song if 'the Russians love their children too.'

Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon.

'The Moonstone' was all I could have hoped for. A mysterious, cursed jewel, wrested from India, only to be stolen later from a great British mansion. Enigmatic, dangerous priests who follow it across the ocean in hopes of wresting it back.

The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosopher's Stone.

When it began to grow dark, the Rat, with an air of excitement and mystery, summoned them back into the parlour, stood each of them up alongside of his little heap, and proceeded to dress them up for the coming expedition.

I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting!

People love dark stories because they take you to a place you think you don't want to go but really you do.

Now you know the rest of the story.

That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.

Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.

Broadchurch' was all about shades of grey, both in characters and storytelling, and I wanted to see that through to the end.

Obviously people loved 'Mystery Road', people loved the storytelling aspect of it, people liked the character.

To me, storytelling is a mystery. Especially when you're directing.