Gillian Flynn Quotes

I think suspense is a big thing.

In TV, you always feel you are standing on the tracks of an oncoming train.

If you can actually get someone to sit on the edge of their seat and feel nervous if there's a knock at the door, then you've done something pretty terrific as a writer.

Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.

Suspense is a real tough beast in terms of the filmmaking.

One of the wonderful things about 'Power' and why fans often say it makes their heart race is it's set up like a horror film because the audience is, like, four or five steps ahead of the characters.

With thrillers, there's such a fine line between what's good and what's cheesy and corny.

The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure.

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

Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens.

Every story needs an element of suspense - or it's lousy.

Most crime novels offer a curious kind of escape, to places that jag the nerves and worry the mind. Their rides of suspense give a good thrill, but it's rarely a comfortable one.

For thrillers, it's especially difficult to carve out a good trailer.

Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.

Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.

It's a comedy thriller, brilliantly written and it's full of twists and turns at every page. When I was reading it I was desperate to get to the end to find out what happens, it really hooks you.

It's not often a thriller keeps me wound up as well as 'Headhunters' did. I knew I was being manipulated and didn't care. It was a pleasure to see how well it was being done.

Thrillers are an enormous amount of fun for filmmakers.

That's the kind of TV I like to watch, where you just don't know what's going to happen.

The rules of suspense are that you do know, and you just don't know when. In the Hitchcock rules of suspense, you are supposed to know that there is a bomb on the bus that might blow up, and then it becomes very tense - but if you don't know that there's a bomb and it just blows up, then it's just a surprise.

Thrillers are my favorite. I like stuff that keeps you on the edge of your seat or maybe makes you jump.

If you're going to write thrillers, you have to make a decision if you are going to be realistic or go off and over.

The key to a good horror movie is what happens between the scares. The scares aren't the tricky part. If you're involved in what's going on in between, the scare is going to trick you. If you're not, the best scare in the world will not be scary.

For me it's about creating and sustaining tension for as long as possible, and I'm not generally interested in allowing that tension to be deflated, especially by a jump scare.

I love thrillers - 'Dead Calm' is one of my favourite movies of all time.