Sylvia Day Quotes

It is a reality show... this show is never without drama.

They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera.

Watching 'Scandal' is a fun and exciting guilty pleasure, which is how I imagine most real scandals start out.

As in all TV shows, and especially a show called 'Mistresses,' all is not going to be as it seems.

A fuel of discontent and anxiety is probably pretty central to the fuel at 'Scandal!'

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

I love the conflict of relationships on 'Justified.'

The idea of withholding a massive secret is obviously quite exciting to some people. It is also the basis of much classic drama, of course, from Sophocles onwards.

I think that in order for anything to work on television, you have to have conflict. Nothing can be too happy or it's boring. People don't want to watch that - they want to watch things that are exciting and dangerous and sexy and have tension.

'Game of Thrones' is fundamentally based on a Machiavellian, almost Jacobean, idea of power and intrigue.

I think suspense is a big thing.

Secrets make for good drama, and revealing the hidden truths and contradictions of life is, for me, one of the most exciting aspects of making movies.

People want to be entertained when they watch dramas. 'Mistresses' has a mixture of escapism and reality.

Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.

Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.

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.

I never fully understand all the drama and machinations within the Eagles.

It's a thrilling world, and people really like stories about secrets, which is the essence of a spy drama.

Every thriller needs a good bad guy; without a bad guy, there's no thriller.

With 'House of Cards,' you really get the heart and the meat of drama - and it's a thriller!

The only thing as murky as a conspiracy is what's happening in Hollywood.

On television, I love 'The Crown,' and 'The Affair' is so psychological.

Good TV is not about people being happy; it's drama.

I love the characters in 'Wolf of Wall Street' and 'House of Cards.'

I think, primarily, we love spy thrillers, and I think, instinctively, we love the tension that those thrillers can bring.