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Suspense is worse than disappointment.

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This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

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I'm interested in the human more than I'm interested in building suspense.

Niels Arden Oplev

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Suspense arises naturally from good writing - it's not a spice to be added separately.

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Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.

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Really I'm a fan of any movie, whether it's suspense, action, or comedy - anything that has a good story.

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Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.

Sergio Aragones

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When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting.

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I like to play characters that get to do it all - to have a bit of comedy here and a bit of pathos here and a bit of suspense here, that's what's fun.

Michael Shannon

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I like being scared every now and then, I like the suspense and the thrills. Nothing like taking a girlfriend to a movie and holding her hand while she jumps.

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Today's ghost stories tend to be much more physically or psychologically violent. The Victorians were much more leisurely about what might or could happen, building suspense layer by layer rather than punching you in the face.

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There are a number of writers who believe it is their duty to throw as many curve balls at the reader as possible. To twist and twist again. These are the Chubby Checkers of crime fiction and, while I admire the craft, I think that it can actually work against genuine suspense.

Mark Billingham

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Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. He was the master of suspense, certainly, but visually you would get a lot of information from what he would do with the camera and what he would allow you to see as the story was unfolding.

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