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I don't think a lot of people would spot the video-game influences in '10 Cloverfield Lane.' People think it's just a Hitchcockian mystery. And I was heavily influenced by Alfred Hitchcock, for sure. But for a generation prior to mine, that would be the sole influence. Since I grew up playing video games, I drew so much inspiration from that world.
Dan Trachtenberg
Video Games
Generation
People
World
Think
Alfred Hitchcock
Mine
Sole
Would
Would-Be
Drew
Inspiration
Mystery
Since
Sure
Spot
Prior
Lot
Up
Hitchcock
Just
Influence
Influenced
Influences
Grew
Video
Much
Lane
Games
Playing
I don't mind close-ups, I like them, but they're kind of forceful - you see a lot, you get a lot of information in a close-up. There's less mystery.
David Duchovny
You
Mind
Kind
See
Mystery
Like
Forceful
Lot
Close-Up
Get
Information
Them
Less
It's always a mystery when you're going into a role - 'Here's your wife of 40 years and... action!' How do you create ease or chemistry or whatever is supposed to exist?
David Duchovny
You
Wife
Chemistry
Whatever
Action
Ease
Mystery
Supposed
Always
How
Years
Exist
Role
Going
Create
Your
Here
Cyberattacks have long been hard to stop because determining where they come from takes time - and sometimes the mystery is never solved.
David E. Sanger
Time
Sometimes
Long
Solved
Determining
Mystery
Never
Takes
Come
Because
Been
Stop
Where
Hard
A lot of the stories I write about have an element of mystery. They're crime stories or conspiracy stories or quests. They do have built into them revelations and twists. But the revelations, to me, come from seeing history as it's unfolding, or life as it's unfolding.
David Grann
Life
Me
History
Crime
Conspiracy
Seeing
About
Mystery
Write
Come
Built
Revelations
Lot
Unfolding
Stories
Them
Element
Twists
The deepest mystery of Twitter is why celebrities and elected officials take part. After all, we all know they can't write their own lines.
David Harsanyi
Own
Twitter
Mystery
Write
Take
Part
Know
Lines
Celebrities
Officials
After
Elected
Elected Officials
Why
Deepest
Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.
David McCallum
Enough
Savor
Mystery
Get
Them
Perhaps the greatest Maya mystery of all is the cause of the civilization's abrupt decline. The last dated stela erected at Tikal was put up in A.D. 869; the last anywhere in the Maya world, in 909.
David Roberts
World
Cause
Abrupt
Dated
Civilization
Mystery
Put
Perhaps
Greatest
Up
Anywhere
Decline
Last
I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise. It's the stuff that I love writing about. I like creating worlds.
David S. Goyer
Love
Science
Writing
Reading
Worlds
Otherwise
Books
Geek
About
Mystery
Stuff
Like
Make
Science Fiction
Comic
Comic Books
Up
Fiction
Grew
Fantasy
Creating
Pulp
In very general terms 'Top Of The Lake' is about good and evil. It's a deep dark mystery. It also deals with lots of fascinating human relationships, and it's also about the battle of the sexes.
David Wenham
Good
Good And Evil
Battle
Dark
Evil
Relationships
Top
Sexes
About
General
Mystery
Terms
Also
Deals
Lots
Very
Human
Lake
Deep
Fascinating
Human Relationships
The addition of romance in my books or mystery to a historical romance is the sauce, not the goose.
Deanna Raybourn
Addition
Books
Mystery
Goose
Historical
Romance
Sauce
A lot of our assumptions of the world are fairly cynical, fairly negative, and assume the worst. What our reading tastes show - in this rush to fantasy, romance, whatever - is that we actually still want to believe in a world of possibility, in a world of mystery.
Deborah Harkness
World
Negative
Reading
Whatever
Cynical
Believe
Assume
Assumptions
Our
Worst
Possibility
Rush
Mystery
Fairly
Still
Lot
Tastes
Romance
Want
Fantasy
Show
Actually
Nobody thinks mystery writers go around killing people, but they always seem to assume singers are singing about themselves, especially if you write melancholy songs like me.
Del Shannon
Me
You
People
Singing
Assume
Melancholy
About
Seem
Mystery
Write
Writers
Songs
Nobody
Like
Singers
Around
Always
Go
Themselves
Thinks
The thing I wonder about is where does Brian's creative spark come from? Not his subjects or anything, but his spark. What makes it so great for me is that I really don't know. There's a mystery behind Brian, even to me.
Dennis Wilson
Great
Me
Creative
About
Mystery
Come
Know
Makes
Does
His
Subjects
Wonder
Behind
Where
Anything
Spark
Really
Brian
Even
Thing
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
Diane Ackerman
Savage
Beautiful
Will
Country
Lies
Mystery
Beautiful Country
Between
Began
End
In-Between
What teens will realize is always a mystery to me. I'm still realizing so many things myself, very belatedly, that it seems unwise to think I have any right to be showing people things in hopes that they'll realize them.
Diane Duane
Myself
Me
People
Will
Think
Teens
Hopes
Seems
Mystery
Always
Unwise
Still
Very
Any
Them
Realize
Realizing
Many
Showing
Right
Things
I always was fascinated with China, because I was born in Europe, and for us, China had this fascination and mystery. The first time I came here was in 1989. They were on bicycles, and the speed of the growth has been incredible.
Diane von Furstenberg
Time
First
Speed
Incredible
Has-Been
Born
Mystery
Had
Because
First Time
Always
Came
Were
Been
China
Us
Europe
Fascinated
Fascination
Growth
Here
The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I'm not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.
Dick Cavett
Joke
Before
Neurological
Results
Remains
Mystery
Scholarly
Studies
Scientific
Subject
Brain
Any
Where
Process
Aware
When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.
Don DeLillo
You
Try
Way
Unravel
Something
Mystery
Written
Created
Belittle
The gaming world is a complete mystery to me! Well, I did play Pac Man and Frogger using big machines at an arcade back in the '80s.
Doug Jones
Me
Man
World
Big
Back
Complete
Complete Mystery
Machines
Arcade
Mystery
Well
Did
Gaming
Using
Play
I wouldn't apply high frame rates to a love story or a thriller or a film noir or a mystery.
Douglas Trumbull
Love
Love Story
Frame
High
Rates
Thriller
Mystery
Noir
Story
Film
Film Noir
Apply
I've never been adamant about joining Twitter; I have nothing against it; I'm not one of those people who hates Twitter. I think it's great for what it is, but right now - I don't know. I just like to keep the mystery.
Drew Van Acker
Great
People
Nothing
Think
Twitter
Those
Hates
About
Joining
Mystery
Never
Like
Know
Been
Just
Against
Who
Keep
Now
Right
Adamant
I arrived at school pensive, introverted, and not very sporty, so magic became a place of mystery and intrigue, an escape for my boyish mind.
Drummond Money-Coutts
School
Mind
Intrigue
Introverted
Magic
Mystery
Became
Boyish
Arrived
Very
Escape
Place
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.
Edward Zwick
Every
Frame
Those
Would
Some
Guys
Mystery
Take
Never
Because
Been
Who
Fun
Away
My second novel, 'The Luminaries,' is set in the New Zealand gold rushes of the 1860s, though it's not really a historical novel in the conventional sense. So far, I've been describing it as 'an astrological murder mystery.'
Eleanor Catton
Sense
Though
Mystery
New
Been
Historical
Gold
Conventional
New Zealand
Far
Really
Describing
Novel
Zealand
Second
Set
Every film is a crapshoot. It's a mystery when a movie comes together. I've never been able to figure it out. I don't know how I make my choices. The only thing you can do is know there's something about a character that you really want to experience.
Elisabeth Shue
Character
You
Together
Experience
Every
Out
Able
About
Something
Only
Mystery
Never
Know
Make
How
Been
Want
Movie
The Only Thing
Crapshoot
Really
Choices
Figure
Film
Thing
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