Quotes About Tension

I'm not sure you can do anything quickly or easily with the North.

The crises in North Korea, Iran, the Middle East, show how quickly things can change and how they can go wrong. We must be prepared. And right now the Army is not.

If you're making a horror film, it's very important that you have lots of quiet, suspensey, don't-know-what's-happening stuff before you get the big fright.

Since 2006, when the Second Lebanon War killed perhaps 2,000 Lebanese, many of them civilians, and led to the destruction of an entire section of Beirut, the northern border has been absolutely quiet.

If you were writing a short ghost story, I would say start very quietly and go, 'One, two, three jump.' Or start with a jump and make it jumpier. But with a long story, it must have rises and falls.

We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.

Oh, I get nervous quite a bit, actually.

The thing about 'Drag Race' now is that you don't really know what's going to happen when it gets to the end of the season.

Radical Islam has been the foe of Christendom for centuries.

I've always sort of been at odds with radio programmers.

I don't know, in view of the situation and the act going where it was going, I don't know, the rage did go all over the place. It went to everybody in the room.

It has long been known that if you want to see me turn into a raging, snarling beast, then all you have to do is use any combination of the words 'chill out,' 'chilling,' or - my maximum red rag - 'chillax.'

Third and 10 down by four at Lambeau Field in the drizzling rain... two minutes left. There's nothing like that.

It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.

It's funny, people don't think of 'Cloverfield' as being restrained because it's a handycam movie, but the only reason it's a handycam movie is because that was supposed to be the reality of the situation.

If you're in P10 and you're getting caught from behind from P11 or the other way round... there's that one point to gain... and there's not really a lot to lose.

The whole format of 'Game of Thrones' is that you just don't know what to expect.

I think that's why 'Game of Thrones' is such a watercooler talking point: because there are these moments that are beautiful and terrible at the same time.

You could tell that America was gearing up for war.

What I've learnt from 'Friends' is don't let the characters get together because then it won't be as good afterwards.

If I have a gig in the evening, I get 'the doom' at about 5 P.M., when I think I'm getting flu.

My problem on 'Safe' was that when I liked something, I would giggle.

What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?

I enjoy getting riled up, and nothing's gonna do that for you like a good scary movie.