Unforeseen Development Quotes

It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.

When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they're not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work, I could easily write a very convincing sort of account of it that made it look like I had planned it all out from day one and that this led logically to that and then I did this and then that followed quite naturally from that. But that's not how it felt.

I did not plan to make the Cube.

A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn.

Above all, it's never blind chance: it's a chance that is always planned, but also always surprising. And I need it in order to carry on, in order to eradicate my mistakes, to destroy what I've worked out wrong, to introduce something different and disruptive. I'm often astonished to find how much better chance is than I am.

I never imagined that Hamilton would be turned into a musical, much less a hip-hop musical. I think I can safely say that that's the last thing I would have expected.

A film in Bollywood was truly unexpected.

We are a fluke of nature, a quirk of evolution, a glorious contingency.

History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.

Now, two years have passed and the situation is completely different: no one wants to organise this match.

It was a bit unimaginable when I began that I'd ever get to 25 books. But it was also unimaginable how much crime-writing would have changed.

And then, as if written by the hand of a bad novelist, an incredible thing happened.

What a strange turn of events.

It's the one you don't expect that knocks you out.

There's no way anybody could have predicted how fast this industry would take off.

But now, today, we don't know if Over the River is truly the next project to be realized, because something very nice happened to our life in November in New York.

A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.

There was so much talk about the movie and we thought, "Wouldn't it be great to still do the movie, but to give everybody this thing they didn't see coming?" Even with the number of episodes, it was reported that there was going to be 10 episodes, and then there was talk about adding more.

The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.

'Ain't Them Bodies Saints' wound up becoming a love story even though it was not initially meant to be one.