Unexpected Ending Quotes

What is the point of making the film if the man doesn't marry the girl?

Stories work better when not everyone gets what they want.

You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing.

The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again

They say anything can happen in a short series. I just didn't expect it to be that short.

I was shocked when 'The Hobbit' ended where it ended. I wasn't paying attention to what they were doing; I didn't know they had another movie, and I couldn't believe it was when the dragon came out.

I never thought it would end like this. I never thought he would leave me without saying goodbye.

A story to me must have some surprise...I must have a passion to write the story.

The world record is like you we went to the theater to see this movie, and it was really good, and it had an unexpected ending, and you left the theater saying, 'Wow, that was such a great movie.'

It's a funny thing about stories. It doesn't feel like you make them up, more like you find them. You type and type and you know you haven't got it yet, because somewhere out there, there's that perfect thing -- the unexpected ending that was always going to happen. That place you've always been heading for, but never expected to go.

After the Champions League final in 2007... I would never have thought I would have finished my career in Milan!

[Dennis] Etchison would write stories that were just punch lines at the end. You wouldn't realize something horrific was happening until the last paragraph.

In our show, there's usually a comeuppance. Or, if not, it's an anti-ending. And you're supposed to get that.

I enjoy a good cliffhanger. As a reader, I relish that nervous feeling you get when you're engrossed in a story, but in the back of your mind you're aware that there aren't that many pages left. How will it end? Everything can't be wrapped up! This can't end! Then it does, and your heart seems to stop.

We didn't know until really quite late in the piece how Joel [Wyman] would finish it off.

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.

If you like a story that's totally different and won't know which way it's going... where it's go ing to end up and which way it's going to take you, then I think my work fits the bill.

I have an idea of how the book will finish up, but it very rarely finishes up the way that I think it's going to.

I'm still mad at Josh Charles for dying on 'The Good Wife.'

whether they'll write the story of my life as a tragedy or an epic fantasy... I was wondering if it was going to be a kiss at the end, or sad music and a sweeping camera shot over the fields I once roamed freely. I'm hoping for the kiss, but expecting the sweeping camera shot.

'Goliath' is about nine, 10 minutes long, and the end of it is so interesting, we didn't really want it to be used as a single.

I worked with a writer, Kathleen Boyce. It was a wonderful experience...but I didn't expect that the last chapter would be the last chapter of Donna Karan. That was probably the biggest shock.

Maybe my movie isn't over, I say, because sometimes moviemakers trick the audience with a false bad ending, and just when you think the movie is going to end badly, something dramatic happens, which leads to the happy ending. This seems like a good spot for something dramatic to happen, especially since it's my birthday.

Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.