It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do.
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As soon as things become predictable, they become boring.
I don't think of myself predicting things. I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it's a question of how badly people want them to.
Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life.
Life is anything but predictable.
In real life, events seem much less dramatic.
The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.
I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way - you begin reading Anna Karenina and you know pretty much what's going to happen at the end. But that doesn't mean you know what's going to happen in the middle. For me, it's that sense of what happens in the middle that's important.
Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future.
You can only predict things after they have happened.
A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way, now it's going to go that way. It has to do that. If it's predictable, it's just boring.