Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

You can be taught so much, but the sense of anticipation cannot be taught.

I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept.

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

The unknown is always interesting.

When I'm an audience member I do not want to go and see something that I already know, I want to see something that I don't know. I want to be surprised and stimulated to think about something. I want the magic. I want to be in a situation of uncertainty; that's what excites me.

If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?

It is hard to go back into a world that has already been explored, so to speak. And the fans are very passionate about it, and you don't want to burst that bubble; you don't want to break that illusion. You want to get it right. You want it to feel familiar, but also surprising.

A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.

The closest synonym of happiness is excitement, and you can generate it by doing something that you can't completely comprehend. This understanding makes the process rich and exciting.

I remember the location of 'Apoorva Sahodarangal.' As a kid, it was an exciting location to be in.

If everybody knows all the tricks, it's no more magic.

There was romance in the unknown, but once a place had been discovered and cataloged and mapped, it was diminished, just another dusty fact in a book, sapped of mystery. So maybe it was better to leave a few spots on the map blank. To let the world keep a little of its magic, rather than forcing it to divulge every last secret. Maybe it was better, now and then, to wonder.

I understood right from the start that every set of library doors were the sort of magic portals that lead to other lands. My God, right within reach there were dinosaurs and planets and presidents and girl detectives!

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.

Predictability is boring! I want a book to take me someplace I haven't been before, show me sights I haven't seen, make me ponder questions I may not have pondered before.

What's exciting is there's a curtain that divides the audience from this other world. You want to see behind.

I write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen.

I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

Once, the world was full of mysteries, some of them frightening, some of them wonderful, some of them merely fascinating. Now, it can be a banal and predictable place, the tracks of daily life so well-beaten and defined, our culture awash with the imbecile obvious, our existence suffocating in safety. But mysteries remain.

I love the unknown. I love the discovery of what will be happening and just kind of sitting back and not knowing.

There's nothing better than not knowing what's going to happen until you put the pieces together.