Quotes About Tension

The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.

I'd love to make a thriller.

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.

I like a good old thriller.

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.

I have a couple of thick files about things that have gone wrong between people; I ought to write about them in the manner of a thriller. It would finally convince me that I was a real writer.

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

There's a lot of similarities, I think, between a thriller and a comedy because it's all about tension. It's about building tension and setups and payoffs and misdirections and surprising people and sort of pushing the boundary.

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

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

I was never a big fan of horror. I got into it making these films, but I don't ever see myself doing slasher movies. The kind of horror film I like is 'The Shining.' I don't really like slashers, but I love thrillers with tension.

Thrillers are an enormous amount of fun for filmmakers.

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 think, primarily, we love spy thrillers, and I think, instinctively, we love the tension that those thrillers can bring.

I think I'll stick with psychological thrillers.

I love thrillers, and I always have.

I like doing thrillers.

If you're going to write thrillers, you have to make a decision if you are going to be realistic or go off and over.

To me, the best comedies get a little dark, and the best thrillers are a little bit funny. So I'm not exactly sure where I draw the line between the two.

I find psychological thrillers interesting both dramatically and visually.

The older I get, the more I love psychological thrillers.

Thrillers rely on certain archetypes and our familiarity with them is quietly driving all of the tension. So it becomes an interesting challenge from the score perspective, to enhance that tension without being noticed, just like those archetypes.

I love writing thrillers.