Quotes About Suspense

You never know in 'Riverdale' who's going to drop off next.

A lot of people die in my movies. So if you're in a few of my movies, you have a good chance of dying!

If you're telling a story it's always best not to play the ending.

Pataas' will be an out and out commercial entertainer and there will a mind game. Audiences can't expect what will happen next.

The novels I prefer, are those that make you feel uneasy from the very first page.

The Eye Linc was watching shot upward twenty feet in a convulsive jerk, hung there for an instant, then started a wobbling decent. There were two holes in it. It skimmed the heads of the men, coming for Linc's group. Tears streamed out of the corners of it, dripping to the ground like a trail of rain. And as it neared Linc, blood started to come, seeping from the holes, mixed with fluid.

Withholding things in a story is no good if you aren't building to something substantial. It becomes foreplay without the main event, and no one wants that.

When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.

The news is a never-ending horror movie and nobody knows how it's going to end

A Fragment of Fear, a 1965 novel by John Bingham.

We were on pins and needles.

She stumbled as if in a dream. But this wasn't a dream. It was a real dead body…in Papa's trunk.

I thought he might kiss me as we sat shivering on the bank of the spring with our clothes soaked through and our feet dangling in the steaming water. We looked into each other's eyes the way I'd always imagined people did right before they leaned in closer and touched lips for the first time. But that was all we did. We looked at each other. Into each other. We were still clutching hands.

We need more bodies, 'cause it's not looking enough like the last scene in Hamlet already. --Chopper Jim Chopin

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told.

On television and in the movies, crimes are always solved. Nothing is left uncertain. By the end, the viewer knows whodunit. In real life, on the other hand, many murders remain unsolved, and even some that are 'solved' to the satisfaction of the police and prosecutors lack sufficient evidence to result in a conviction.

It's what you don't see that keeps you on the edge of your seat in any kind of film - leave it to the imagination of the viewer.

As a viewer, I never want any movie ruined for me, no matter what the genre is.

It is important to know what audiences might expect from their genre movies, but I think it is also important to not give them everything they want. As a viewer, I think it can get pretty boring that way.

Comedy is like horror - you have to shock something in the viewer's system to make them feel it.

I'll tell you - what I can tell you is that I know when I saw 'Zodiac' and then again when I saw 'No Country For Old Men,' there was a moment in each of my viewing experiences where I went, 'Dammit, this is scarier than 'Silence Of The Lambs.''

I'd love to do a James Bond-y kind of villain!

With the police thriller genre, people come to it with an expectation. It allows you to get away with a bit of violence, edginess, darkness.