Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

People love scandal; people love drama. They love stripping away the layers to see what's really in there, and they'll do anything - as well as make it up - to get it.

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.

People love a good mystery; I understand that.

I would love to do something in the thriller category. Not so much horror, but I would love to do a full-on psychological thriller. That would be really interesting. A period piece would also be fantastic.

You'll see a movie about someone you hate or someone you love. Will you see a movie about grandma making apple pies? No, you won't. Only if grandma has poisoned the neighbor or is suspected of poisoning the neighbor through her apple pies.

I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives - Jessica Fletcher, 'Columbo,' 'Perry Mason,' 'L.A. Law.' Any sense of guilt appeals to me in a television program - a sense of guilt, or a sense of making a lot of money.

People want a story - and my horror films have never been about only ghosts and spirits. They have their share of love, hatred, jealousy and complexity of relationships involved.

I don't like gossip stories. Facts are okay. But when gossips begin making items, that's something else again.

Ironically, I wouldn't say I'm a massive horror fan. I love thrillers.

It's a thrilling world, and people really like stories about secrets, which is the essence of a spy drama.

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

Everybody wants a sensational story.

I love rumors. It gives me something to think about and enjoy.

Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.

I like stories that leave you wanting more, leave you wondering, but don't tell you everything.

People respond to something which intrigues them instead of something that gives them all the information - particularly in pop, which is, like, the genre for knowing way too much about everyone and everything.

Anything that's secret, clandestine, loaded with such a supercargo of speculation, misinformation, disinformation and, for that matter, accurate revelations, creates an appetite.

'Fringe' is one of my favorite television shows, from its inception. I absolutely love all of the science fiction of it, the mystery of it, and the science in it.

I think mystery... allows us time to dream.

I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.

My sources are unreliable but their information is fascinating

Rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available.

I know 'Lost' used to drive people mad trying to anticipate what was happening or what something meant.

If you're going to write thrillers, you have to make a decision if you are going to be realistic or go off and over.

The public's appetite for what sensible newspapers call 'personality journalism' and what I call gossip is insatiable. It will never, ever stop growing because everybody dreams.