Every Quote by Sydney Pollack Download Open image “Every story needs an element of suspense - or it's lousy.” — Sydney Pollack ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Every Lousy Needs Story Suspense
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 films are often based on communication problems, and that affects all of the plot points. It almost gives it kind of a fable… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
I think suspense should be like any other color on a writers palette. I suppose Im in the minority but I think its crazy… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I think suspense should be like any other color on a writer's palette. I suppose I'm in the minority but I think it's crazy… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
I've always read suspense, so raising the stakes to life and death situations in my romance plots seemed natural. — JoAnn Ross Copy Share Image
Typically, I have a fairly good grip on the plot of a suspense novel before I set about writing it. I must know beforehand… — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
I think all good narration contains an element of mystery and suspense. If it didn't, if the storyline were predictable, we would have no… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“If a book is worth reading at all, it is worth reading more than once. Suspense is the lowest of excitants, designed to take… — William Gerhardie Copy Share Image
The suspense in a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist himself, who is intensely curious too about what will… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
It's my job to motivate the audience to believe. I have to get them to suspend their judgment in favor of involvement. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
The marketing of anything is full of exploitation and lies and hype. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
People sense when you're pretending, when you're worried about your own ego. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don't want to get up in my own bed and then go to… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
Every film I've made has a kind of frustrated love story in the center of it. They were people who saw life from opposing… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
You mustn't regret decisions that you make. Because the decisions are made out of your gut in a way and you have to stick… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
When you're shooting a feature that costs $200,000 a day with a crew of 250, you don't want accidents; you want to know exactly… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
What makes architecture extraordinary is that you're looking at the building, but your peripheral vision is also seeing how it fits within a space.… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
I don't get nervous talking about my films, but if I'm the subject, it's hard. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that.… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
If you look at the charts every year, there may be five or ten memorable songs from each year. — Randy Jackson Copy Share Image
Like many other scientists who hold the Catholic faith, I see the Creator's plan and purpose fulfilled in our universe. I see a planet… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
Every time the U.S. government makes a low-cost loan to someone, it's investing in them. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Food as a hobby used to be an elite pastime, and it has become something that is totally ordinary for people of every background.… — Dana Goodyear Copy Share Image
We are surrounded every day by people who do thankless but important work. — Brian Kilmeade Copy Share Image
