Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes

Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous "I don't know.

Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.

I'm usually very attracted to things that I can't define. If something's too clear, it's very often not inspiring to me anymore.

Directing is like meeting a woman. You don't know her, but something strikes you, and then you just have to go into it.

Every film has a lot of questions that you don't know the answer to, and you just hope that you figure it out. But I tend to like things that are hard; I don't know why.

Poems come from incomplete knowledge.

The writing process is sort of like when you've got no electricity and you've gotten up in the middle of the night to find the bathroom, feeling your way along in the dark. I can't hardly tell you what I do because I really don't know.

Part of accepting a role is being interested in the character and part of it is being interested in the movie or what it means and the exploration of it. But it's more about not knowing the answers to certain questions but wanting to go on the journey of discovery to find the answers.

Mystery is the basic element of all works of art.

Songwriting is a mystery. And it's a mystery to me that it's a mystery. But that sounds stupid.

I'm not into, Hey, what's your sign? or any of that. But I don't know how I got here, and I don't know how I write songs. I don't know why I breathe.

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery.

Men are intrigued by anything they do not completly control.

People usually asked her if she had a belly button. Of course she had a belly button. She couldn't explain how. She didn't really want to know.

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

I have no idea,' he tells her, and there is such a spark in his eye when he says it, she can tell having no idea is exactly the way he wants it.

When I write, I don't know what is going to emerge. I begin in a condition of complete unknowing, an utter nakedness of concept or goal. A word appears, another word appears, an image. It is a moving into mystery.

Embrace what you don't know

Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing.

Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.

I love not knowing. It keeps me guessing.

Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.

As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to fill the empty, unknown spaces for ourselves, and in them there is room for imagination and for hope.

Being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on.

The job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.