Quotes About Suspense

A distant, eerie howl had risen out of the floor, from far beneath. Silent, absolutely still, she waited, and at last it came again, indefinably closer, but muffled, as if layers of stone-rooms, dungeons, cellars-were between her and it. Not human. She crouched down with her ear to the stone slabs. Somewhere down there, unguessable levels below,something prowled.

Catherine Louisa Pirkis

Slowly, without taking his eyes from hers, the man in the black coat knelt before her. "I have come for the girl in the window," he said, and his eyes filled with tears.

Melissa arrived punctually a few minutes after eight. She was on foot and her attire was an incitement to crime.

Probabilmente se Mosse avesse trovato la scritta "Io uccido..." tracciata col sangue, con lo stesso sangue ci avrebbe scritto sotto "Anch'io...

A Night-Blooming Flower, a Tsingano witch-boy, and a...a Cassaline whatever. This is what Ysandre sends me. I must be mad.

A confusing title means for an exciting book

Breuning drove. Dudley sat up front Carlisle sat in back, with three sawed-off shotguns.

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and they got a 459 thing going.

To me, sound is a crucial component to, really, any moviegoing experience, but particularly with suspense films or thrillers. I think you need the audience to become subtly really attuned to the soundscape in, like, this uncomfortable way.

The horror genre has long been used to uncover the dark underbelly of things.

When I was reading 'The Underground Railroad,' I had to actually hold my hand over the right-hand page so I wouldn't see, by mistake, what was coming up next - it was so suspenseful. it's really masterful.

People are intrigued but also scared about things that are uneasy.

The detective genre is not easy because you've got to get to a conclusion that is unexpected.

For something like 'Line of Duty' to work, it has to be both plausible and unexpected.

Everything's always about page-turning, right? What's next? So, if you create questions for audiences, then they'll want to know the answer. Or they begin to formulate possible outcomes. That's the game we play when we're hearing a story unfold. That's part of what sucks us into a movie.

Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. He was the master of suspense, certainly, but visually you would get a lot of information from what he would do with the camera and what he would allow you to see as the story was unfolding.

As the plot of 'Condor' unfolds, you'll understand that nothing is sacred in the pharmacy world or in the behind-the-scenes workings of the CIA and FBI.

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.

I've always loved spy stories. Who can resist?

I love 'Bond' movies, I love spy movies.

Spy plots are hard, really hard.

When you really study espionage movies, or spy movies, the beginnings are really set up to have, like, an amazing bit of action, but at the moment you're watching it, you have no idea why or what it's about.