Quotes About Tension

You can't get away from violence in drama. If you do not have conflict, you do not have drama.

Conflict is always fun to play.

Any kind of conflict draws me to a role.

At the heart of drama is conflict.

There's conflict in every story.

That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.

You won't have a story unless you have conflict, which means if there's no conflict in a situation, people look for a way to make some.

Everyone always says that conflict is drama, and I agree, but I also don't think you need drama everywhere. Or conflict everywhere.

Conflict is entertaining and it's the stuff of drama - or comedy - but too much conflict, or conflict that's at too high a pitch can get annoying.

Yes, a family is interesting. You can get a lot of drama in the conflicts there. It's like the sea. It seems calm, but inside there is conflict.

I'm interested in conflict and confrontation.

I'm so afraid of confrontation.

I hate confrontations.

In TV, you're always confused because you legitimately don't know what you're doing the next week.

With brain and body, it's great if you have a connection between the two, but when separated, that leads to a lot of conflict.

Drama seems to kind of surround me.

I'm not itching for a fight. But I'm just saying when I see the other guy putting on his boxing gloves and, you know, you've got dancing around in the ring, I kind of suspect that maybe a fight's coming.

You've either got to find a way to make your continuing characters insteresting without making them maudlin or overwrought, or you've got to put more emphasis on the suspects.

If you don't do the suspense correctly, then your jump scares are not going to work.

Every story needs an element of suspense - or it's lousy.

For me, suspense is always harder and better than going for the quick, outright scare.

Suspense is a real tough beast in terms of the filmmaking.

Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself.

Great horror movies are earned. 'Halloween' is an earned picture. Every moment of grotesque violence is earned by the suspense they're able to maintain getting there.