Quotes About Tension

I used comedy to deflect a lot of situations; if you make someone laugh, they don't want to punch you in the face.

I feel like all of my characters now take this congested situation, they clash, and from there you purge yourself.

We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.

I love playing really strung out characters, and characters that are really pushed to their limits and losing their mind.

Every time Luis Suarez is close, he pushes defenders around.

If you keep on pushing someone, eventually you push them too far.

Hard men present hard choices - none more so than Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia.

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal.

You know, comedy and horror are flip sides of the same coin.

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's impossible to know what happens in the fog of war.

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

That is a football game, you don't know what is going to happen when you play.

Boxing is a formal, ritualized creation of crisis.

Either a war has to be fought, or it doesn't.

What's a better foundation for drama? You have power, you have ambition, you have sex... that's the stuff of drama.

I will say that when it comes to the horror genre, for me, the scariest thing is when something is actually in the frame.

With some actors, you can tell, just from their different backgrounds and their different approaches to working, they would have just a natural conflict, just a sort of friction.

If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.

It's not always friendly outside the ropes at the Ryder Cup.

I don't think you really have chemistry in the way that you want between two actors unless frustration is there as well.

A fuel of discontent and anxiety is probably pretty central to the fuel at 'Scandal!'

He had played to Rasputin on the night of his murder. Rasputin, for all his psychic powers, had clearly not picked up on any of the tension in the atmosphere.

Roger didn't feel like laughing anymore when Mrs. Patman fixed her icy gaze on him.