Balanced Quote by Alfred Hitchcock Download Open image “For me, suspense doesn't have any value if it's not balanced by humor.” — Alfred Hitchcock ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Balanced Humor Ifs Inspirational Suspense Values
Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there. — Sergio Aragones Copy Share Image
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it. — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
I can remember the times when I started including humor in novels that were suspenseful. I was told you can't do that because you can't keep the audience in suspense if they're laughing. My attitude was, if the character has a sense of humor, then that makes the character more real because that's how we deal with the vicissitudes of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
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Suspense combines curiosity with fear and pulls them up a rising slope. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
A lot of the best suspense operates on a careful withholding of information as opposed to the doling out of information. — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world. — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
Films do have suspense and tensions and scares and jumps, and I like to write things that have both in them, comedy and horror,… — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating. — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
When accepting the American Film Institute Life Achievement award: I beg permission to mention by name only four people who have given me the… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders. — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character. — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes. — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
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