Rene Magritte Quotes

Secrets make for good drama, and revealing the hidden truths and contradictions of life is, for me, one of the most exciting aspects of making movies.

Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.

People like secrets. Creative people really like secrets.

There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.

It's fun to discover things. I wouldn't want everything laid out, simply and too obviously.

If you are going to try and hide something, sooner or later people are going to find out.

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.

I get drawn in when I feel there is something deep and mysterious going on beneath the surface of something.

Secrets are very intriguing - I always think that's an interesting theme.

I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.

The heart has a yearning for the unknown, a longing to penetrate the deep shadow and the winding glade, where, as it seems, no human foot has been.

One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story.

Things that are unknown attract us.

There are more secrets, but there is not more secrecy.

Things can’t be kept secret forever.

I see the world as an adventure thriller and a voyage of discovery. To me, all lives are lives of mystery and secrecy, and that's what I write about.

I've always been interested in what else is here, what lies beneath.

I like there to be some secrets.

I don't want people to know what is true all the time and that's what keeps the mystery.

That's for me to know, and for you to find out.

Because after a time having a secret and nobody knowing you have a secret us no fun. And although you dont want others to know what the secret is, you want them to at least know you have one.

A plot begins when somebody has something to hide.

What is the future? What is the past? What are we? What is the magic fluid that surrounds us and conceals the things we most need to know? We live and die in the midst of marvels.

A concealed truth, that's all a lie is. Either by omission or commission we never do more than obscure. The truth stays in the undergrowth, waiting to be discovered.

Of course things you don't know about are always nicer'n things you do, same as the pertater on 'tother side of the plate is always the biggest.