Mikhail Bulgakov Quotes

Nothing is more important than when you see someone for the first time, and you get that feeling where you can't move or speak or do anything until you know that person and take a sense of who they are with you.

It happens very rarely that your ears perk up about a certain project.

Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.

The first day of 'Liberty,' I was hanging around waiting for Ford to come in. Everybody told me how tough he was and not to say anything, or he'd single you out and get on you the whole shoot. But as he walked in, I got up and saluted him.

There is hardly a person alive who does not want to know 'what happened next,' in any context.

Are you following me?" she asks, but doesn't meet my gaze. "Yeah," I say. "Why?" I give her the only honest and true answer I have. "You're where I want to be.

The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.

He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.

I always wanted to strip. I'm sort of one of those people who would walk past a strip club and while everybody else might give it a passing glance or cracks a joke, I'd be like pressing my face up against the window trying to see in. I was very curious always.

Fascination is one step beyond interest. Interested people want to know if it works. Fascinated people want to learn how it works.

A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.

The unknown always passes for the marvellous.

Men are intrigued by anything they do not completly control.

Secrets interest us all, I think.

My favorite symbols were those which I didn't understand.

Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear picture.

A stunning first impression was not the same thing as love at first sight. But surely it was an invitation to consider the matter.

Everybody is interesting when they are interested in something.

I like surprises. I like mystery. I’m not the kind of person who goes to the writer’s room and goes, I need to know the whole story so I can prepare. No, don’t tell me anything!

Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.

I think we've always, as a species, been fascinated with stuff that we don't understand. Anytime someone can shed light on that, whether it's legit or just somebody's fantasy of what that stuff is, I think people take notice.

It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about "I".

Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.

he's a story i want to know from page one

It's in our nature to be intrigued. We're putting the bread crumb not in your mouth but close to your mouth. You reach a little bit, and that's why it works.