I think the hardest part about making a scary film is about being able to retain the mystery, especially when it comes to supernatural stuff.

I don't make films that are easy to market, unfortunately. I think that 'Pi' was the easiest one, because we had that symbol to stick up everywhere, so that was a good gimmick, and created a good mystery, and we didn't have to do huge scale.

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.

I can go on for hours about how 'Doctor Who' is a portal fantasy writ across the stars, how the companions are falling down the rabbit hole over and over again forever, tumbling head over heels into mystery. Hours.

I've got headdresses and robes from all over: I am the mystery of everybody's story.

Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there.

Thomas Pynchon surely inaugurated or crystallized a new genre in 1963 when he published 'V.' The seriocomic mystery or thriller with one foot set in the present and one in various historical eras received its postmodern baptism from Pynchon.

In our age of over-sharing, we know everything about everyone else, robbing them of mystery and thus of power.

People apparently only read mystery stories of any length. With mysteries, the longer the better, and people will read any damn thing. But the indulgent, 800-page books that were written a hundred years ago are just not going to be written anymore, and people need to get used to that.

I have always been into the darker side of things and love the mystery and sexiness of vampires.

The mystery form was very helpful for me as a beginning writer because mystery novels and suspense novels have a beginning, a middle and an end.

People, whether they be male or female, are equally a mystery to me.

As a kid, I loved doing puzzles, solving riddles, and reading mystery books. I also loved animals and always had pets.

I've never been one of those guys who storyboards every frame, because that would take away some of the mystery and some of the fun.

My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.

In Mexico, luchadores, the wrestlers, are the only Mexican superheroes. And to keep the mystery behind the mask is really important.

The mystery of the soul is like that of a closed door. When you open it, you see something which was not there before.

Anna Held's birthdate and hometown are a dark mystery, thanks to her own mythmaking.

In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.