Quotes About Tension

I think in telling a good story there has to be ups and downs with any character, and you can't just have everything go swimmingly and you can't just have characters who are supposed to be in a romantic relationship just getting into an argument every episode.

Airing the family's laundry can make people upset.

People lie when they get upset.

My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.

Whitey is uptight about offending blacks without really knowing what offends blacks.

For me, the sound design and the musical score is a big part of what makes scary movies work.

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.

With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.

I think that maybe in every company today there is always at least one person who is going crazy slowly.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high.

Q is one big stew that keeps on boiling.

If you poke the Russian bear with a stick ,he will respond.

Coming down the 18th, your heart's pounding, and the hair is sticking straight up on your arms - there's no feeling like it.

You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet's nest.

North Korea's whole idea is to create a crisis to solve a crisis. They're so poor and they're so desperate that they realize that this bombastic rhetoric can drive the South Korean stock market down and get the U.S. in a tizzy. And it's a game they've been playing for many, many years.

I have the most nervous stomach in the world.

Iran has attacked oil fields and shot down a U.S. drone - all while we stood by.

There is some sign that North Korea is changing recently. There is ongoing successful negotiation to have a military talk to Pyongyang, which has been stopped for seven years.

Well, I don't want to say mad, but there was 'heated' exchanges back in the closing days of OVW when I said that I was running our own business there in OVW and they said, no, we are running their storage closet. They didn't actually say that, but that was how they treated it.

The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center.

And we're in the middle of a 'perfect storm.' These days, government social services are being bad-mouthed and defunded. The non-profit world is looking more and more like the for-profit world. The growing gap between rich and poor makes most of us very anxious about where we stand.

The great thing about Pete and Peggy's storyline is that you barely have to do anything. There's so much there, so much history, that you can have them exchange a look and it's so loaded. So you honestly don't have to do anything.

When you hear complaints about pro wrestling, it's that there is too much soap opera, too much storyline.