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Tension Quotes

There's a lot of similarities, I think, between a thriller and a comedy because it's all about tension. It's about building tension and setups and payoffs and misdirections and surprising people and sort of pushing the boundary.

People Building Think Comedy Tension

There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber because that's an economically productive thing for me to do.

Me Forest Say Kind Tension Here

Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.

Good Conflict High Driven Tension

The Arab Spring has heightened the ideological tension between Ankara and Tehran, and Turkey's model seems to be winning.

Spring Winning Tension Seems Turkey

I'm a big fan of suspense and tension filmmaking, and that was my goal with 'The Conjuring.'

Goal Filmmaking Suspense Big Tension

In some units it may suppress the motor discharge altogether, in some it may merely slow the motor discharge thus lessening the wave frequency of the contraction and so the tension.

Charles Scott Sherrington

Slow Wave Tension May Some Motor

For 'Boxers and Saints', the tension between Eastern and Western ways of thinking was very personal for me, and I needed to control every aspect.

Me Control Thinking Personal Tension

Our communities are being destroyed by racial tension - and we're too polite to talk about it.

Randall L. Stephenson

Talk Racial Tension Being Destroyed

For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.

Mahmoud Darwish

Identity Always Tension Israel Arabs

I don't always set stories in villages, more often in towns. But always in smallish communities because the characters' actions are more visible there, and the dramatic tension is heightened.

Joanna Trollope

More Always Dramatic Tension Because

I have funny bones. If there's ever any kind of tension, I'll always be the one to try and be funny to loosen things up.

Funny Kind Try Always Up Tension

I'm interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think it's the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really can't be this way.

Roy Lichtenstein

Art Think Way Worst Tension Seems

If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.

You Know Begin Out Tension Film

I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience.

Experience Build Up Tension Used

I feel no terror when I'm acting. There's no tension. It's just a part.

Feel Acting Tension Just I Feel

There are other ways to create tension and drama than to have somebody stabbed through the back with a sword.

Back Create Sword Drama Tension

In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.

Guillaume Canet

People Group More Tension Between

I don't like to watch a movie where it's just kind of like all one note, dee-dee-dee-dee. I want spikes of adrenaline and highs and lows and exciting tension release.

Catherine Hardwicke

Want Kind Release Watch Tension

I think there is always romantic tension between Lois Lane and Clark Kent.

Romantic Think Always Lane Tension

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Waiting World Opportunities Tension

It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into.

Lance Armstrong

Tough Media Country Athlete Tension

But, in addition, there is, all through the tragedy, a constant alternation of rises and falls in this tension or in the emotional pitch of the work, a regular sequence of more exciting and less exciting sections.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

Work Tragedy More Emotional Tension

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

John W. Gardner

Age Tension Aspirations Between Our

You can do really slow movements with it, like zooming in for a minute and a half. The audience isn't aware that the camera has moved, but there's subconscious tension there.

Slow Camera You Audience Tension

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