Every war will astonish you.
Tyrion Lannister could not have been more astonished if Aegon the Conqueror himself had burst into the room, riding on a dragon and juggling lemon pies.
Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.
I'm not interested in attacking, I'm interested in astonishing.
I love shocking people.
Charm is a product of the unexpected.
You're going to blow his socks off!
Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.
People never cease to amaze me.
All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish.
The thing is to dazzle
I can do contortionist things; it's really weird. But I can freak people out, which is great!
The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.
Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar.
