Quotes About Suspense

Anthony Horowitz

These people...I've never come across anyone like them. You want the truth? They make Scorpia look like a vicar's tea party.

Anthony Horowitz

Inspector Morse, Taggart, Lewis, Foyle's War, Endeavour, A Touch of Frost, Luther, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Cracker, Broadchurch and even bloody Maigret and Wallander –

Anthony Horowitz

Victorian novel, perhaps something by Wilkie Collins.

Anthony Horowitz

Anthony Horowitz

Anthony Horowitz

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

The word is murder.

The glass shattered but the bullet hadn't passed through and at the same time Bond was diving to one side, his left hand scrabbling for the gun. He grabbed it and now, protected by the lower half of the door, he twisted round and dived down.

Alex was surrounded by 7 of the most dangerous and unpredictable people on the planet. It was just a question of which one would kill him first.

You're joking. Inspector Morse, Taggart, Lewis, Foyle's War, Endeavour, A Touch of Frost, Luther, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Cracker, Broadchurch and even bloody Maigret and Wallander

British TV would disappear into a dot on the screen without murder.

I want to know when we arrive in international waters because that is when I intend to shoot you and dump you over the side." The Salesman smiled.

Psychological horror is more interesting to me than the explicitly physical.

Noir focuses on the criminal mind, not a whodunit: more why they did it and will they get away with it. The abnormal psychology is what fascinates me rather than the puzzle-solving aspect.

If you lift the romantic element out of my plots, you still have fully formed mysteries. In the same fashion, if you pull the mystery out of a historical romance, you are left with a perfectly satisfying story.

Even if things are going well, I'm always thinking that I'm about to be hit with the dreaded gut punch and - psych! - I'll find out that it's all falling apart.

People ask me, 'Is 3D a good medium for horror movies?' I think it's the perfect thing for horror movies because it really puts you into it.

What frustrates me about some high-concept shows is that they don't give you information until sweeps, but 'Jericho's' audience will get a large piece of the puzzle every week.

There's the moment in 'Saw' where I get up off of the floor at the end. That was shocking, because no one expects it. I thought they did that really, really well.

'It Follows' is one of the best movies I've ever seen.