Andrew Gross Quotes

I'm big on having a blistering pace. That's one of the hallmarks of what I do, and that's not easy. I never blow up cars and things like that, so it's something else that keeps the suspense flowing. I try not to write a chapter that isn't going to turn on the movie projector in your head.

I'd love to make a thriller.

For me, 'Jaws' is much more of an adventure movie, but when it's scary, it's terrifying. When it's funny, it's hilarious. When there's drama, it's the most sincere stuff on screen. When there's adventure, there's swashbuckle. It's all those things.

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

Thrillers are an enormous amount of fun for filmmakers.

In a thriller, the camera's an active narrator, or can be.

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.

My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread.

For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.

It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.

I like a good old thriller.

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

A thriller or an action movie would entice me. A sportsperson or a musician's biopic sounds exciting, too.

The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.

Knowing the 'right answers' does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they're true.

I take no actions that I wouldn't publicly recount. If you can't speak your deeds, then don't do them.

Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world.

'Good as Gone' goes from zero to 60 in under six seconds and never lets off the gas! If you like your thrillers filled with nonstop action in a race against time through Europe's underbelly, hop in and take a ride.

When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted

If you don’t want to be scared in a horror film, don’t close your eyes. Close your ears.

Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!--The sting of conscience is indecent.

He is the Truth, and He wants us to deal in truth with ourselves and our loved ones. We want the truth about you and your family to flood into and overrun the secrets that keep you in bondage to dysfunctional behavior and relationships

But to procrastinate and prevaricate simply because you're afraid of erring, when others - I mean our brethren in Germany - must make infinitely more difficult decisions every day, seems to me almost to run counter to love. To delay or fail to make decisions may be more sinful than to make wrong decisions out of faith and love.

I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation.

True, we must dare look things in the face before we dare think, speak, act, or assume responsibility. If we dare not even look, what else are we good for?