Gillian Flynn Quotes

If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.

I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.

I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.

Journalists often ask me when I go to the field, 'What do you expect to find?' And my answer always is, 'The unexpected,' because we're just looking at the tip of the iceberg; we've just scratched the surface.

I've always been blessed, or cursed, some might say, with an insatiable curiosity, a desire to find something out about a people and a place. That's where it all begins.

What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.

What I do for a living is ask questions.

I think for me I'm always... I find myself to be a very curious person when something interests me and I find that I'm attracted to that mystery.

I have a natural curiosity about things, in general. I'm constantly trying to find out how things work and how I can put them back together again, and why they work that way. The natural world is all around us.

Children and scientists share an outlook on life. If I do this, what will happen? is both the motto of the child at play and the defining refrain of the physical scientist. ... The unfamiliar and the strange - these are the domain of all children and scientists.

Dig into life with wild roving abandon, opening your mind to the delicious possibilities that perplex the mind, entice the heart, and excite the spirit.

I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there.

Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.

I'm insatiably curious.

I'm a curious person. I like to ask questions.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

If I like something, I then have to study every single aspect of it to find out if there's more things that I would like, and it's just this weird hunger to want more. I always feel like there's so much that exists.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

But I can say what interests me about documentary is the fact that you don't know how the story ends at the onset - that you are investigating, with a camera, and the story emerges as you go along.

Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.

I like to explore things.

The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy.

I like the unknown. I like mystery.

Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.

Definition is the death of discovery.