Quotes About Suspense

'Jack Ryan' is a very fast-paced, very contemporary, very action-driven thriller.

Sometimes it feels as if the artist hasn't done the real work of engaging with the material. Film noir can't just play off looks and attitudes. A thriller needs a dose of genuine suspense. It does not have to be literal, but it does have to feel genuine. Otherwise the artist is just leeching off the form.

Well, if you're writing a thriller, you have to have your character in mortal jeopardy on page 1 or it's not a thriller.

My #1 job as a thriller author is to give readers the best white-knuckle thrill ride I am capable of. I am first and foremost in the entertainment business. If that suspenseful ride is also terrifying because it hits really close to home, then I am once again doing what I am supposed to do as a thriller author.

I like a good old thriller.

I love the thriller genre generally. I like murder mysteries and those kinds of adventure stories.

When you're making a psychological thriller, what you need to do is have an audience on shifting sand so they're never quite sure where they are.

Sound design is always critical, especially when you're doing a thriller with a lot of suspense and tension.

A thriller needs to hold the interest of the reader from the very beginning. It needs to engage with them, hold them in rapt attention, and prevent them from putting down the book.

Even in a manuscript form, 'The Girl on the Train' sort of leapt off the pages as a contemporary suspense drama-slash-thriller. It has all the mechanics of a thriller, but at the heart of it was a great character study.

I don't like excessive violence. That's my thing. I don't like movies heavy with guns, any of that stuff, so I'm not into that stuff, but I love a psychological thriller.

The term 'psychological thriller' is an elastic one these days, tagged liberally on to any story of suspense that explores motivations while keeping blood and chainsaws to a minimum.

People love a good thriller that makes them sit on their edge of their seats.

I don't watch things like 'Jeepers Creepers' or 'Final Destination 53.' I really like more of the psychological thrillers, like 'Rosemary's Baby,' 'The Shining' and 'Don't Look Now.'

When you think about it, psychological thrillers often involve extraordinary events happening to ordinary people.

I like crime thrillers. I like heist movies.

When I made 'Chocolate,' no one had made suspense thrillers for a long time.

Thrillers are an enormous amount of fun for filmmakers.

I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.

The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure.

Thrillers are my favorite. I like stuff that keeps you on the edge of your seat or maybe makes you jump.

I prefer thrillers but when it's thriller/horror, I like it. The gore is not very important to me, I prefer suspense. But I like dark films.

After Bound, we were offered a lot of lesbian thrillers.

Well, my books - I think one of the hallmarks of my thrillers is that they're based in reality.