We all desire things that we believe we cannot have, and so my films reflect that again and again. The mystery must be solved, the goal attained. – Kim Jee-woon
He felt like the invisible boy. When he got to be part of the mystery Men he felt like he had a purpose. – Kel Mitchell
I’ve been typed as historical fiction, historical women’s fiction, historical mystery, historical chick lit, historical romance – all for the same book. – Lauren Willig
Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper. – Jean Vanier
In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it’s really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery. – Jason Clarke
I’m not a risk taker. I don’t do plunging necklines or really short skirts. I try to stay as classy as possible and provide a little mystery. – Kristen Bell
The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it. – Kary Mullis
I just gravitate to movies where the mystery is the character himself. Any time you see a trailer of something where somebody is questioning ‘Who am I?’ I’m hooked. – Len Wiseman
A mystery is a whodunit. You know what happened, but not how or who’s behind it. A thriller, or a suspense, is a howdunit. You know what happened, and you usually know who did it, but you keep reading because you want to know how they pulled it off. – M. J. Rose
I know there is much mystery, much question to what happened, and I must also say, many lies. – Jennifer Capriati
I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it. – Jean M. Auel
Nowadays, everyone broadcasts everything about their life – I think vampires are really sexy because there’s so much that you don’t know about them. There’s a lot of mystery. – Kayla Ewell
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings. – Mahatma Gandhi
It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assassination, but the contents of this particular message never reached the Warren Commission and remain a complete mystery. – Jim Garrison
I long for the old days of Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn, stars who had real glamour and mystique. We only knew so much about their lives; the rest was a mystery. – Pixie Lott
A lot of locked-room mysteries take time for you to pay attention and see the setup. They aren’t thrillers, and they don’t move along. The modern mystery story is really faster-paced, and I think modern readers tend to prefer seeing something happening on every other page. – Otto Penzler
One of the hopes we have when we hear or read an interview with a mystery writer is to get inside the writer’s head, to learn something we didn’t know before. – Otto Penzler
I’ve always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults. – Rick Riordan
What I like in novels that I read and enjoy is interplay of theme: the mystery of how we seem to be so separate as human beings. – Sebastian Faulks
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable. – Raymond Chandler
After I had written more than a dozen adult genre novels, an editor I knew in New York asked me to write a mystery for young adults. – Rodman Philbrick
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. – Rene Magritte
One week, you can have a real heavy romance ‘Chuck’ episode, and the next week it can be some kind of murdery mystery. It’s not like doing a procedural. – Robert Duncan McNeill
I shot a lot of close-ups on this movie ’cause there’s like a dual mystery, she’s searching through her haunted past to find some truth and she’s also following an external mystery where she comes to think she might be the killer. – Philip Kaufman