Mitchell Hurwitz Quotes

A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.

It may sound surprising, but a joke and a crime novel work in very much the same way. The comedian/writer leads their audience along the garden path. The audience know what's coming, or at least they think they do until they get hit from a direction they were not expecting.

There's the moment in 'Saw' where I get up off of the floor at the end. That was shocking, because no one expects it. I thought they did that really, really well.

I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter.

It goes all the way back to 'Psycho.' Movies with twists like that are memorable because they're so simple.

I have an idea, and I have a perpetrator, and I write the book along those lines, and when I get to the last chapter, I change the perpetrator so that if I can deceive myself, I can deceive the reader.

The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write.

One of the greatest things about playing a villain is people wondering when he's going to make his comeback.

In our show, there's usually a comeuppance. Or, if not, it's an anti-ending. And you're supposed to get that.

At the end of the first Halloween, when I shot 6 bullets into Michael Myers, John Carpenter said, Let's get a shot of you looking out of the window and seeing no one lying there.

I didn't make 'The Sixth Sense' because I thought the ending wouldn't work!

I don't like spoilers. I don't like things being spoiled.

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.

A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way, now it's going to go that way. It has to do that. If it's predictable, it's just boring.

Every week, there's a different twist and turn you're not going to see coming, and how you handle that is important.

Being a magician taught me how powerful the element of surprise can be. In each book, I've tried to work that in - an unexpected twist in a story that reveals an insight, a counter intuitive study that turns your beliefs upside-down.

Ekk Deewana Tha' will have a surprise ending to watch out for.

Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a surprise.

We'll have a part and it's clearing up, so you think something is going to happen and it totally stops and does something completely different and then the part you thought was going to happen comes out of completely nowhere.

You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don't.

And then, as if written by the hand of a bad novelist, an incredible thing happened.

As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.

I always read the script, try to imagine myself in the role, then decide whether I have anything to give to the part. If you don't feel like that in the beginning, it is not going to go well.

We're thrilled to have Maisie Williams joining us on Doctor Who. It's not possible to say too much about who or what she's playing, but she is going to challenge the Doctor in very unexpected ways. This time he might just be out of his depth, and we know Maisie is going to give him exactly the right sort of hell.