If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.

You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.

I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is.

Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension.

I don't always set stories in villages, more often in towns. But always in smallish communities because the characters' actions are more visible there, and the dramatic tension is heightened.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

I'm as anxious as any viewer would be to see what Temple is going to do next. All I know is that in the second half of the season, he's going to have more sexual tension developing. And it's a great cast - they're all Broadway actors except for me. I aspire to that.

I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.

Music is like a huge release of tension.

As we were leaving the Huron camp, it was awkward filming. I think that the Huron watching us was there to create tension - maybe we wouldn't get out. Nothing complicated.

Because of the tension and difficulty, I remember trying to do the silliest things when we weren't rolling cameras, anything to lift the spirits. But once on set, it was important to have full concentration.

So much tension around here in New York. They want to fine you for every little thing you do.

I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason.

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

In some units it may suppress the motor discharge altogether, in some it may merely slow the motor discharge thus lessening the wave frequency of the contraction and so the tension.