Philip Rosenthal Quotes

It's hard to know what's going to happen when you're filming a reality show, but if you just let life unfold, that's when the best stories evolve.

That's the great thing about filmmaking: Things happen you don't know are going to happen at the end.

I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen... that if painters did know what was going to happen they wouldn't bother to do it.

When I'm making a movie, I don't like to know what's going to happen next. I like to watch something and be surprised all the time, and just not know, and let it take me wherever.

Sometimes a great director will do a bad job and an okay director will do a great job. You never know.

One of the things that I find so exciting about life is that you're constantly surprised. You never know what's going to happen, and it's certainly like that making movies; every once in a while, one will come along that transcends all of your expectations.

It's always a surprise! This business is always an adventure.

You don't know what inspires you. You like to think you know what inspires you, but in the final analysis I don't think you really do. It's great to look at a blank sheet of paper, you know, and walk up to an instrument and not know what's gonna happen. It's the most challenging thing I do.

It's a lot of fun to be a part of films that you don't exactly know how they're going to turn out.

I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.

I prefer to surprise myself as I'm writing. I'm not interested in it if I already know where it's going. So I have only the most general sense of what I'm doing when I start a story. I sometimes have a destination in mind, but how the story is going to go from Point A to Point Z is something I make up as I go along.

The beautiful thing about baseball is that anything can happen. It's like life in that way. As soon as you think you have it all figured out, something happens that makes you realize - you know nothing. The only thing that's guaranteed is that it will be an exciting ride.

I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.

We won't really know what will happen until it happens.

I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.

I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.

You are lost the moment you know what the result will be.

Reading a newspaper is like reading someone's letters, as opposed to a biography or a history. The writer really does not know what will happen. A novelist needs to feel what that is like.

I like to surprise myself. I've always been attracted to projects where I don't know how they're going to turn out.

People ask me, 'What's your next film?' And I never know.

I never really tell anyone what I'm writing beforehand because I usually don't know what it will be.

What I like about the EMAs is that you will never know what happens.

I don't like to predict the fights. People can do that. They can predict my fights, but I never do that.

You never have any idea where your movie's going to go when you're shooting - you're in this little bubble.

Anything can happen. Anything happens all the time.