Vernon A. Walters Quotes

I think suspense is a big thing.

Keep everybody guessing as to what your next trick is going to be. Don't become too predictable.

Ironically, I wouldn't say I'm a massive horror fan. I love thrillers.

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

When you're making a psychological thriller, what you need to do is have an audience on shifting sand so they're never quite sure where they are.

A great thriller, to me, is more about creating a sense of unease: a queasiness that comes with knowing something is not quite right.

The thing that scares us the most is when familiar things operate in unfamiliar ways.

In some ways, the audience becomes complacent when they go to a horror film. And so it's fun to take that attitude and then to upend it.

I like surprises. I like mystery. I’m not the kind of person who goes to the writer’s room and goes, I need to know the whole story so I can prepare. No, don’t tell me anything!

Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.

It's always good to keep people guessing.

My favorite types of movies to watch as a viewer are thrillers - I really have a soft spot for them, I love them. Especially psychological thrillers.

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

To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth.

I like to play the grey areas in life - that's the most uncomfortable place to be. Nobody likes to be in that in-between state where there don't know what's going to happen. There's a lot of tension in that, and a lot of stuff to play with - where it's uncomfortable and awkward and sad and scary.

I want to keep people guessing.

There often is a dark secret in books... There is often a gathering sense of dread; there's a gap sometimes in the text from which all kinds of monsters can emerge.

Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautiful woman, no doubt very rich and very troubled. Anything can happen and usually does on the Orient Express.

My only obligation is to keep myself and other people guessing.

Unease is not an emotion I get often in the theatre, and I like it.

Though they don't always have to be set in fog, weather is incredibly important in ghost stories. As is suspense: you've got to turn the screw very, very slowly.

I like to keep people guessing.

He played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ace.

I definitely like the mystery of not knowing how things will turn out, you know.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.