Quotes About Dramatic Tension

#1. McQueen is an astonishing film maker. He uses really unusual shots and builds incredible dramatic tension.

Kevin Whately

#2. 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

#3. I had witnessed the moment when this girl found out that nobody (not even Papa) knows what's going to happen to her or him or anyone and that's called Dramatic Tension and that's called the Suspense of Life and that's called Being Alive.

Catherine Lacey

#4. The reason stories have dramatic tension is because LIFE has dramatic tension.

Donald Miller

#5. It is primarily through the growth of science and technology that man has acquired those attributes which distinguish him from the animals, which have indeed made it possible for him to become human.

Arthur Compton

#6. People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.

Nalini Nadkarni

#7. Let you be sincere and then you will always look pretty!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible.

Barbara Kingsolver

#9. My dear fellow, I am prepared to prove anything.

Oscar Wilde

#10. I want to taste that sweet little mouth of yours," he says, but he's not done. He's just using a dramatic pause to build the tension for the next bit. And it's good that he does, because the next part is this: "Before I make you come so hard you forget who you are.

Charlotte Stein

#11. 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

#12. Reputation depended often on the smallest of actions, the daily decisions made with honor and responsibility, not the huge drama of heroic battles.

Diana Gabaldon