Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes

The world is a play that would not be worth seeing if we knew the plot.

It's always good to keep people guessing.

As subjects, we all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story. We cannot believe that it is finished, that we are 'finished,' even though we may say so; we expect another chapter, another installment, tomorrow or next week.

... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.

I think suspense is a big thing.

The one thing that's always very safe to say with 'Arrow' is never make assumptions.

I love the novel because it's like a love affair. You can just fall into it and keep going, and you never know where it's going to take you.

Characters can be mysterious and you're not really sure which way they might turn at a given point.

It's what you don't see that keeps you on the edge of your seat in any kind of film - leave it to the imagination of the viewer.

I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.

On an island, anything can happen. In a crime novel, it usually does.

You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter's going to be. That's what makes it exciting.

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don't know what's going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don't know at all what you're going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you're a kid and you're reading stories.

When I see an image in my head that compels me, where there's this mystery about what's going to happen next or could happen next, I'll be intrigued. There are so many scripts that you read, and you know exactly what's going to happen, and there aren't too many where you can't tell within the first 20 pages where it's going.

I definitely like the mystery of not knowing how things will turn out, you know.

You don't want to watch people who are really awful. That's the goal whenever you're playing someone who's a little twisted. One of the important aspects of this is we just don't know who he is. Or who she is. And we find out along the way.

Every day and every scene, it's never the scene that you expect.

When you're making a psychological thriller, what you need to do is have an audience on shifting sand so they're never quite sure where they are.

Whenever we start a new TV series, there's also a lot of question marks, and part of that is finding who you are.

A lot of the stories I write about have an element of mystery. They're crime stories or conspiracy stories or quests. They do have built into them revelations and twists. But the revelations, to me, come from seeing history as it's unfolding, or life as it's unfolding.

When people start to think they're figuring out 'The Vampire Diaries,' it switches on you.

I think of my life as a cheap novel. Part of you wants it to go on forever, and part of you wants to see how it comes out.

Those elements that make 'Catfish' so interesting to watch, elements of deception and mystery, make any movie or any piece of content exciting to watch. It makes characters complex and interesting.

Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.

Surprises are good. I'm not of the thinking where you tell the audience everything. Sometimes I don't even want to see the trailers. You see the trailer, you've seen the movie.