Aldous Huxley Quotes

I think it's important to have mystique.

You need mystery. You actually do. I think that's what foreign women, French women in particular, are good at. There's still a sense that you need to keep some of the unknown because that's where the soul resides, or something.

There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.

When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you're an open book, there's no allure.

When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

The thing with Stephen King is that everyone dies, and everyone comes back to life. So you never know with his mind where things go. It's the same with Steven Spielberg, too.

I've always had a fascination for everything surrounding things that are unexplainable. Not surprising that my first movie was a horror film, even though, of course, at the time I had no experience writing horror music.

I love the novel because it's like a love affair. You can just fall into it and keep going, and you never know where it's going to take you.

I want to keep people guessing.

What I do is create an aura of mystery.

Don't be so familiar and so much into the details. Keep people dreaming. Close the window, and make them wonder.

Even though I don't necessarily believe in everything that's supernatural, I like being scared and I like things that are suspenseful.

We're apt to fall in love with those who are mysterious and challenging to us.

I like to keep people guessing.

Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.

I've always had an air of mystery.

I'm attracted to things that scare me, like 'Psycho,' my favorite Hitchcock movie.

I feel the same magic about 'Angel Falls' that I did with 'Twin Peaks' and 'Mod Squad.'

I'm always looking for the potential mystery in everything; I can't imagine writing about anything else.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

I think fantasy thrillers excite audiences as, inherently, people have a fascination for the unknown and the unexplained.

I enjoy being mysterious. I enjoy the notoriety it brings.

I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out; Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure.

It's easy to convince men to love you, Puck. All you have to do is be a mountain they have to climb or a poem they don't understand.