Quotes About Tension

Woody [Allen] is a fascinating character to be around. You don't really know what he's going to want. You're on your toes, but you're on your heels too, if you know what I mean.

"Is it possible to both want and not want something at the same time? For desire to ride with fear?

There was a lot of tension between my dad and his mother and brothers. Sometimes when I was over there, I remember thinking, "I don't want to get shot."

Don't, Cassandra. (Wulf) Oh, please. I just want to choke her for a few minutes. (Cassandra)

The position of power and having to make decisions that you don't necessarily want to make is always good conflict and good drama.

Having the audience know more than the characters is precisely where you want to be in terms of drama. You can engage them much more when that is the case.

I'm always in situations where you can't be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.

Withholding things in a story is no good if you aren't building to something substantial. It becomes foreplay without the main event, and no one wants that.

Okay, Shane," Agnes said as Brenda's clock gonged midnight. "I got Joey in the kitchen, a cop in the front hall, a dead body in the basement, and you in my bedroom. Where do you want to start?

I finished The Freebie, which was a small relationship "talky" movie, and I was like, "I just want to get out of the house! And I want there to be some action, and I want some tension in there!"

So much tension around here in New York. They want to fine you for every little thing you do.

I would love to end the nuclear ambition of the Iranians without firing a shot, but you have to know who you're talking to and what they actually want, this is North Korea in the making.

Oh, come on, Arthur." "I don't want to hear it, Andy." "Jesus Christ" "He doesn't want to hear it, either.

It hurts to want everything and nothing at the same time.

Why did you destroy Manny's office, then?" "I--can't breathe--" "That is the point of choking you," I pointed out. "Haste, please, if you want to live." -Cassiel

"Red Dawn" was a movie made in 1984 I think about World War III. If you have not seen it and plan on watching it, you want to close your eye and cover your ears but not really. You can figure it out.

There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'

One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).

Berlin is the testicles of the West, every time I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin.

Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations...

If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.

Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.