Quotes About Suspense

About the Saint's amorous adventures, by the way, I can't speak so brazenly.

Kids love to be scared - there's way to do it right, and ways to do it wrong.

When I ask 'What's the film that scared you the most?' I'm really asking 'What scares you the most?'

The scariest film in the world is 'Rosemary's Baby.'

We just loved scaring ourselves.

One of the things is that you need to space out scary movies.

I watch too many scary movies.

If you care about the characters, then whatever scary thing happens to them, you feel it even more.

In 'Scream,' there is very real drama that would be in almost any drama.

Dramatics are what keep you in the seats.

It's 'Line of Duty' - you can't second-guess anything!

It's easy to write a short story and frighten people for five pages, but to work at length, when you do it as in 'The Turn Of The Screw' or 'A Christmas Carol,' it's different; you have to build it and build it.

Horror of any kind is dependent on a certain amount of insecurity and paranoia from the audience. And it feeds on that and works on that.

I am so scared of the 'Paranormal Activity' movies. I didn't think I was going to be able to sleep.

The less people know about 'Paranormal Activity,' the more they enjoy it.

'The Conversation' is one that, if you watch 'The Conversation' for the opening sequence, where you hear a conversation taking place as the master - this zoom from way up is zooming in over a park. And I was just absolutely blown away by it because you can hear exactly what's happening, but you don't see. You've got no idea who's talking.

Like the creation, man's games are an expression of freedom . . . for playing relates to the joy of the creator with his creation and the pleasure of the player with his game. Like creation, games combine sincerity and mirth, suspense and relaxation. The player is wholly absorbed in his game and takes it seriously, yet at the same time he transcends himself and his game, for it is after all only a game.22

you need a bomb in the final race, so no matter what, you want a bomb in the last leg.

It was like my life hung on the chapters of a novel - and each scene ended in a cliffhanger.

Phil Rickman

Seconds passed. If there'd been an old clock in here, its ticks would have sounded slow and menacing.

She walked toward me, her high heels perforating the polished wooden air of the Richmond's quiet basement like the slow beat of a tall clock.

He said his name was Kobi Chen-Tulsi. He said, "Tell Threnody Noon that the Prells are going to attack Grand Central." - The Crystal Horizon

Las palabras son complicadas. Apenas he hablado en mi vida. Escribo «en mi vida», como si ya estuviera muerto. En el fondo, es verdad. Es la pura y única verdad. Hace mucho tiempo queme siento muerto. Hago como si siguiera viviendo. Mi sentencia está en suspenso, eso es todo.