One of the ways he has evolved as a film-maker, he says, is in creating on-screen tension.
Between scenes, Mr. De Niro kept to himself, sustaining the on-screen tension between the father and the prospective son-in-law.
'Andrew was so immensely conscientious, good-natured, intelligent and talented, we trusted that he'd rise to the occasion.' Despite the on-screen tension, bonhomie among cast and crew was pronounced.
By all accounts the picture's off-screen tensions mirrored the on-screen fireworks.
The play — based on Evelyn Piper's 1957 pulp mystery (the source for Otto Preminger's 1965 screen adaptation) — derives tension from its resonant, inescapable subtext.
The debate surrounding patient consent for diagnostic testing or screening highlights the tension within the healthcare system between a desire to respect patient autonomy, contain costs, and maximize detection of treatable medical conditions.
What connects the characters is that they have public and private selves – Hardy and Hoynes both have to give press conferences or interviews while dying inside – and these are often the best parts to play on screen because of the tension in the character between what is being said and what is being felt.
Anderson and Duchovny's simmering sexual tension on-screen was rivalled only by their antipathy off it.
The Hook, which Miller originally wrote as a film, never made it to the big screen due to political tensions in the US.
The film also burns a lot of time on a guns-drawn three-way standoff, the kind of scene that probably looks good on the page but never does sustain tension on the screen.
He twists one into a plastic block, and moments later a graph on the laptop screen shows the screw's tension holding steady, even when jostled.
