Quotes About Tension

I think most of my films all have a certain tone or intensity in them. They are tense, and you kind of anticipate some kind of catastrophe, but you're not quite sure.

My favorite film is 'The Empire Strikes Back.' My writing, and my personal taste in movies and books, tends toward works with a darker tone, and 'Empire' fits that the best of all the movies.

In Chicago, you know you got beef with everybody. In Atlanta, you're chilling, but you don't get too comfortable. Like, if I go to the store, it's not like anybody's gonna come out shooting at me.

Edward Heath and Richard Nixon took personal awkwardness with each other to new and excruciating levels.

One time, I was practicing against the Tennessee Titans, and one of their defensive linemen took a cheap shot at our running back, so I planted him.

It's great when you can challenge yourself against the top players in tense situations. I've always enjoyed it.

I'm not the voice of reason; I'm more the guy using these offensive topics as fodder to raise tension in a joke.

I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.

Chess is mental torture.

The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.

there's gonna be a riot before this thing is over. A riot, or worse. Folks don't realize how fragile the social order is, I'm telling you.

In editing, it's amazing how you choose the in and out points. What you cut on is everything for creating tension. It's amazing how expanding a shot by five seconds can just ruin the tension.

One minute with him is all I ask; one minute alone with him, while you're runnin' for th' priest an' th' doctor.

Slowly he edges nearer. He reaches out a hand, so openly and plainly that I believe I am going to expire. The held in breath of the audience is not let out again. Half a minute passes. It is unlikely any of them could of holded their breath like this underwater. They have found new size in their lungs. Down down we go under them waters of desire.

Aquel 31 de marzo de 1933 bien pudo ser su gran noche. La sala estaba llena de gente con la mirada clavada en el día siguiente, como si se encontrasen ante un profundo abismo. Finck los hizo reír como jamás he oído reír a un público

En las calles tampoco se notaba nada. Business as usual. Pero en el aire flotaba aún la sensación del acercamiento estruendoso de lo desconocido...

War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.

War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them.

un lucru m?runt se dovede?te a fi, prin acumulare progresiva, un instrument de tortura.

Mary is roused to great anxiety by these rumors (but then, she is roused to great anxiety by a great many things).

And with that he sensed that this girl he loved and yet knew he had to push away had finally pushed back.

Imagine, then, what happens when your over-active amygdala teams up with your overly-negative self-talk. When it does, all bets are off. Suddenly, it's mental chaos! The alarm bells are clanging and your self-talk goes into total negative and makes everything triple-worse. You are no longer in control. Even good things look bad. Promise and hope fly out the window. The only thing left in the room is tension and panic––and your stress level goes through the roof!

The rig began shaking like caffeine withdrawal." --Opening sentence of THE FURY. "The duct-taped Buick swam north on Rush Street, hunting whores like a lesser white shark." --First sentence of Chapter One, THE FURY

I mean, without the antagonist, there would be no story! It'd be like: 'Once upon a time there was a girl who wanted to be loved, so she met a prince and got married and lived Happily Ever After, The End'? That's not a story; that's a bumper sticker.