Unsatisfying Endings Quotes

Everyone always wants to find the answer, to feel that things are resolved. But in dreams, maybe there isn't an answer so much.

You get to the end of something, you're laughing, you're like, 'That's funny, and that's funny,' and then you get to the end, and the credits come down, and you're like, 'That's it?! That's the whole thing?! You had me here for that?!' I just don't want to do that.

I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.

I used to watch 'The Bachelor,' but it's lost my interest now. The reality shows are getting worse and worse. They're out of control and have been for some time.

I don't like fights that go to decision.

Like a lot of people, for a long time I thought that the road to hell is paved with bad sequels.

Boring heroines are, in my opinion, the most common romance mistake. We loathe hanging out with women who define themselves purely through their relationships... why would we want to read about them?

All those pseudo-Hollywood movies set nowhere, with everybody good looking and having great physique - that's not working any more.

Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.

People relate to things that feel real to them. All the good, happy, over-sexed and moneyed endings on TV are not the way most of us feel in our lives. The success of 'E.R.,' I think, is not relying on overly sentimental stories that are solved where people's lives wrap up nicely with happy endings.

All joking aside, I'm a television watcher and I get frustrated with shows sometimes when they set up puzzles and then they don't give answers. It's just more questions and more questions.

I'm pretty sure this is it for the teen movie thing. It's so frustrating to read when you get to page 20 and you're like, Oy! It's the same thing again!

Generally, screenplays suck.

I find most American films annoy me because their third act tends to be tying up loose ends and returning to moral values and killing the monster. I think most of the scripts I read to tend to go in that direction and I find that very, very unsatisfying. I want the stories to have loose ends and to pose some questions - or even say things that aren't too comfortable.

I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes – toward an infinity of unsatisfying, and disagreeable endings.

I think Dan Brown is a terribly bad writer, but he has cliff-hangers after every chapter which makes you continue reading.

With all my films, the pace is not very fast, and so people get bored with them and comment that they're just people talking in rooms and all that.

One of the most common criticisms of romance is that the genre is too prescribed: If every romance novel ends happily ever after, don't the stories lack complexity? Don't the readers get bored?

Cliffhangers are a lot of fun, but I think they can be easily abused if you're not careful.

There are several occupational hazards for book reviewers, chief among them being the Curse of the Jaded Palate - that sinking feeling when you start reading a new book and begin to suspect that you've seen it all before.

My God, there are so many mediocre screenplays out there.

Most screenplays I receive are boring, and some are straight-out bad.

That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story.

Every year I hear people complain that the quality of screenplays and movies is declining. In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.