Tension Quotes

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

Often, Stories, Actions

I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion.
Patrick Marber

Power, Play, Between

I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason.
Kevin Spacey

Someone, Reason, Creating

I believe our emotional tension can manifest itself physically.
Tom Shadyac

Emotional, Manifest, Physically

Because of the tension and difficulty, I remember trying to do the silliest things when we weren't rolling cameras, anything to lift the spirits. But once on set, it was important to have full concentration.
Madeleine Stowe

Important, Trying, Remember

As we were leaving the Huron camp, it was awkward filming. I think that the Huron watching us was there to create tension - maybe we wouldn't get out. Nothing complicated.
Madeleine Stowe

Nothing, Leaving, Create

Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group.
Harold Evans

History, America, Young

It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.
Iris Chang

Greatest, Country, Special

So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.
Donald Norman

Good, Teacher, Create

Why should I be feeling tension? It's The Daily Show.
Rob Corddry

Daily, Feeling, Why

People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.
Henry Reed

Dreams, Learning, Someone

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

Experience, Used, Until

There's always been a lot of pressure and tension on the line. If 'Pi' didn't work out, I have no idea what my career would be. I don't think I would have gotten another shot at it. If 'Requiem for a Dream' didn't work out, they would have called me a 'one-hit wonder with a sophomore slump'.
Darren Aronofsky

Work, Career, Another

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, Between, Fact

Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension.
Herschel Walker

Big, Year, Believing

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.
Mike Figgis

Half, Audience, Camera

Whatever tension is on set can end up on your face.
Lauren Hutton

End, Whatever, Face

You don't get a chance to take a breath but when you do, you have some really good comedy moments that ease up on the tension that the movie is centered around which is Kim being kidnapped and her son and husband being kidnapped and the jeopardy that they're in.
David R. Ellis

Good, Husband, Son

I think that in order for anything to work on television, you have to have conflict. Nothing can be too happy or it's boring. People don't want to watch that - they want to watch things that are exciting and dangerous and sexy and have tension.
Carrie Preston

Work, Happy, Sexy

It seems when I put together records, as Henley used to say, they're just like movies. They should have action, tension, love scenes, places to relax.
Glenn Frey

Love, Movies, Together

Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.
John Avlon

Politics, Fear, Find

In editing, it's amazing how you choose the in and out points. What you cut on is everything for creating tension. It's amazing how expanding a shot by five seconds can just ruin the tension.
Sean Durkin

Amazing, Everything, Choose

But due to the present regulations the other drivers have better chances again. This brings back the tension.
Jacky Ickx

Again, Present, Chances

Joan's a dream to play - she's not always prancing around the office. There's that side to it, which is really fun, but there's nitty-gritty. She's what makes the workplace so fun - in a workplace that can be so dark and so much tension, Joan gives some levity. And the wonderful thing is she still has these darker moments among the fabulous highs.
Christina Hendricks

Fun, Play, Dark

Do you agree that when there's tension and an obsession to want to hit the ball is when you hit it worst? You have to be loose.
Enrique Pena Nieto

Worst, Obsession, Hit

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, Emotional, Through

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.
Dennis Weaver

Film, Begin, Purse

The tension I feel is the moment they say, 'Action!' Movies are like lightning in a bottle, and you always want to find when you possibly can catch a surprising moment.
Annette Bening

Movies, Find, Moment

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

Around, Here, Fine

My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn't achieve the things she wanted to.
Natalie Merchant

Mother, Children, Single

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