Rupert Friend Quotes

I think mystery... allows us time to dream.

I understand, as an artist as well as a producer, the need for there to be mystery and surprise.

The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through any one that suits you.

I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

I don't think you can approach any piece of art with boundaries or rules. I think respect is a very important thing, but I also think what we discover along the way is really important.

I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.

People like secrets. Creative people really like secrets.

I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

I like the unknown. I like mystery.

I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.

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.

Maybe 'Doonby' will haunt people for awhile and make them wonder, 'What was that really about?' And that excites me as an artist.

It's fun as a creator to make something that allows multiple interpretations.

I see the world as an adventure thriller and a voyage of discovery. To me, all lives are lives of mystery and secrecy, and that's what I write about.

A lot of people don't give their audiences credit. You can leave it a little mysterious. They can think about it.

It drove me mad not being able to know more about Pink Floyd when I was a little kid. But that's the great thing - there was this mystery behind it, and we couldn't find out enough. It made your mind work, it made you seek after it or try to interpret it. It made you envision or imagine what they were doing.

I always find with dramas that the more that's left to the imagination of the audience, the better.

One thing that's really important to me in my music is mystery.

I don't want to lose too much of the mystery by hammering every detail to death.

In order to be as free as I possibly can, in my own imagination, I can't take positions that are closed. Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it, to open doors, sometimes, not even closing the book -- leaving the endings open for reinterpretation, revisitation, a little ambiguity.

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