Suspense Quotes - Page 5

• I love suspense movies, because in a sense they're the most dreamlike of any genre, and I'm sure I'll make another one.

  Curtis Hanson

  Genre

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You could call it that [urban Western], I guess, you could certainly call it that. A lot of these types of films are, really, if you get down to the core most suspense thrillers in this genre, the Western is sort of the birth of it all.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Urban, Birth, Film

  "Director Antoine Fuqua Talks the Equalizer, Westerns, the Hard R Rating, Changes From the 80s Series, and More on Set". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 25, 2014.

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• What I like about the Carpenter take on The Thing is the fact that it just has so much suspense. It seemed like a different story, with the horror elements. Those films that really speak to the primal fear that we, as human beings, have about the unknown have always intrigued me. That's the really scary thing, not the slasher, macabre movies.

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  Scary, Different, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• I can remember the times when I started including humor in novels that were suspenseful. I was told you can't do that because you can't keep the audience in suspense if they're laughing. My attitude was, if the character has a sense of humor, then that makes the character more real because that's how we deal with the vicissitudes of life, we deal with it through humor.

  Dean Koontz

  Attitude, Real, Character

  "The Rumpus Interview With Dean Koontz". Interview with Ben Pfeiffer, therumpus.net. December 21, 2015.

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• Whenever the Lord holds us in suspense, and delays his aid, he is not therefore asleep, but, on the contrary, regulates all His works in such a manner that he does nothing but at the proper time.

  John Calvin

  Doe, Delay, Lord

  John Calvin (2012). “Commentary on the Gospel of John”, p.57, Ravenio Books

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• Have fun, entertain yourself with your work, make yourself laugh and cry with your own stories, make yourself shiver in suspense along with your characters. If you can do that, then you will most likely find a large audience; but even if a large audience is never found, you'll have a happy life.

  Dean Koontz

  Fun, Character, Happy Life

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• I really like suspense in movies. I don't really like rom-coms. But that being said, as an audience member I really like horror films and actress I really like working with fake blood; I think it's so fun.

  Grace Phipps

  Fun, Thinking, Blood

  Interview with Andrew Hawkins, troublecity.squarespace.com. September 28, 2015.

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• I think it's always a challenge when you're telling a story that people know. But hopefully, good storytelling - well, there's two things. One is, you definitely have to have surprises and changes so that people are - you keep them interested, you take them down roads that they didn't expect and give them suspense and surprise.

  Kimberly Peirce

  Thinking, Two, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I am comfortable calling myself a writer of suspense, or a writer of thrillers; both terms are sort of interchangeable to me. I think that came from a sense of being at conflict with my true nature throughout my youth, and being afraid of discovery, and feeling as if I didn't belong.

  Christopher Rice

  Thinking, Discovery, Feelings

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• My thinking was that today's spectator is so well-versed in film language that all theories about suspense, as argued by Dreyer and Hitchcock, on what makes you scared in cinema, can be ditched. It's the spectator, finally, who's going to construct the menace and the fear.

  Bruno Dumont

  Thinking, Cinema, Today

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• In a novella, a whole lot of crap can happen, and you can build momentum and suspense and leave room for a surprise or three. Stories are cut down to the most essential elements, and novels (this might be an unfair generalization on my part) are big fat clumsy efforts where the reader can snooze for a couple chapters and miss nothing of consequence. Hence my love for the middle way.

  Robert Reed

  Couple, Cutting, Effort

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• I read what I like to write: romantic suspense. I also love thrillers and novels of suspense, but I can't handle extreme violence and torture.

  Jayne Ann Krentz

  Writing, Suspense Novels, Violence

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• I think the most important part of storytelling is tension. It's the constant tension of suspense that in a sense mirrors life, because nobody knows what's going to happen three hours from now.

  Richard Condon

  Thinking, Mirrors, Important

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• What fiction could match - in drama or suspense - man's first walk on the Moon?

  Leonard Nimoy

  Drama, Moon, Men

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• There is a hush over all Europe, nay, over all the world. Alas! it is the hush of suspense, and in many lands it is the hush of fear. Listen! No, listen carefully, I think I hear somethingyes, there it was quite clear. Dont you hear it? It is the tramp of armies crunching the gravel of the paradegrounds, splashing through rain-soaked fields, the tramp of two million German soldiers and more than a million Italiansgoing on maneuversyes, only on maneuvers!

  Winston Churchill

  Rain, Army, Thinking

  "Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897-1963" by Robert Rhodes James, Vol. 6, p. 6150, 1974.

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• The trouble with a series as it gets older is it can feel like a tradition, and tradition is the enemy of suspense, and it's the enemy of comedy. It's the enemy of everything, really. So you have to shake it up.

  Steven Moffat

  Enemy, Comedy, Tradition

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• Christ designed that the day of his coming should be hid from us, that being in suspense, we might be as it were upon the watch.

  Martin Luther

  Jesus, Watches, Might

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• With a horror movie most of the actual jumps and scares are made in the edit. It's often not very scary on set and then you watch the film and suddenly it's very scary because the way the jump scares fit together building up the suspense in the audience because it's making them jump when they're least expecting it.

  Jeremy Irvine

  Building Up, Scary, Together

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a visual filmmaker so the camera is a big part of my storytelling tool and it's something that I really rely on to tell a scene or create the suspense that I need and create the emotion of a scene or a sequence.

  James Wan

  Cameras, Needs, Tools

  Source: collider.com

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• An unforgettable tale of love, lust, faith, betrayal, and redemption. A powerful, mesmerizing suspense novel-a tour de force!

  Judith Kelman

  Powerful, Betrayal, Suspense Novels

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• A state of skepticism and suspense may amuse a few inquisitive minds. But the practice of superstition is so congenial to the multitude that, if they are forcibly awakened, they still regret the loss of their pleasing vision.

  Edward Gibbon

  Regret, Loss, Practice

  Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman, M. Guizot (François), William Smith (1872). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.68

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• When my reason is afloat, my faith cannot long remain in suspense, and I believe in God as firmly as in any other truth whatever; in short, a thousand motives draw me to the consolatory side, and add the weight of hope to the equilibrium of reason.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Faith, Believe, Long

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• There is much to admire in Peter Brett's writing, and his concept is brilliant. There's action and suspense all the way.

  Terry Brooks

  Writing, Way, Action

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• As subjects, we all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story. We cannot believe that it is finished, that we are 'finished,' even though we may say so; we expect another chapter, another installment, tomorrow or next week.

  Mary McCarthy

  Believe, Hero, Next Week

  Mary McCarthy (1964). “The Humanist in the Bathtub”

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• Is it not better to remain in suspense than to entangle yourself in the many errors that the human fancy has produced? Is it not better to suspend your convictions than to get mixed up in these seditious and quarrelsome divisions?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Errors, Division, Fancy

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.373, Stanford University Press

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