Thrillers Quotes · Page 5

This is not an international thriller so much as a fiercely literate attempt to subvert the thriller genre itself.

— Christopher Rice

“In the business world, there is no gray. Either you are black, or you are white-washed.”

— Anonymous

The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.

— Lee Child

Before I did any action movies, I did a couple of thrillers. That's hung around for me.

— John McTiernan

I love thrillers - 'Dead Calm' is one of my favourite movies of all time.

— Dan Trachtenberg

Mass market paperback thrillers are a dime a dozen. The trick is to find something that actually sticks to the ribs.

— Michelle Dean

If you do any thriller or horror movie a big part of the process is accounting for the cell phone.

— Jaume Collet-Serra

Many thrillers follow such reliable formulas that you can look at what's happening and guess how much longer a film has to…

— Roger Ebert

I have never done a thriller, and it will just be really fun for me to heave and pant and run and…

— Kate Hudson

All summer, I read fiction because you must read for the pleasure and beauty of it, and not only for research. I…

— Isabel Allende

As a viewer, I really want to watch author-backed stories, and there is something amazing about thrillers, the way it captivates your…

— Anushka Sharma

Instead of writing thrillers to pay for my train bills, I was actually now going to medical school in order to have…

— Michael Crichton

Redford builds a riveting, resonant political thriller that values the complexity of its characters and the intelligence of its audience.

— Peter Travers

“At least things fucking happen in those books, she thought: it's not just people lying in bed and thinking about their fucking…

— J. Robert Lennon

If you go to my Netflix, the sections that they recommend are 'Thrillers with a Strong Female Lead,' 'Comedies With a Strong…

— Max Minghella

Each day is a surprise - and each day I learn something wonderful and new. Both in writing thrillers and in reporting…

— Hank Phillippi Ryan

For me, to take a movie and travel the world and go and work with these cultures and an international cast and…

— Tom Cruise

R.G. Belsky's thought-provoking thriller, The Kennedy Connection, introduces us to a smart, witty, and human hero whose quest to find answers about…

— Jan Burke

The definition of horror is pretty broad. What causes us "horror" is actually a many splendored thing (laughs). It can be hard…

— Bryan Fuller

I've been very lucky at what's happened in my career to date, but playing something as far from me as possible is…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

In a business that has exploited and ignored our people I have only found dead-ends. We need romantic comedies, gross-out and mockery…

— Misty Upham

Since my romance novels had all been thrillers as well, it wasn't such a leap for me to move into the straight…

— Tess Gerritsen

[ The Finest Hours] reminded me a lot of a film I did called Unstoppable in that you have a driving thriller…

— Chris Pine

I love the psychological thriller piece of it. Because we are trapped in this isolated environment with a deadly virus, what's really…

— Kyra Zagorsky

The Strokes can play anything. They could play 'Thriller,' and it would just sound like 'Thriller' as played by the Strokes.

— Julian Casablancas

No Way Back is my kind of novel - a tough, taut thriller - Mofina knows the world he writes about.

— Michael Connelly

I love thrillers, it's part of the emotion that triggers excitement and plays with the mind on the need to know what…

— Pooja Batra

I like thrillers a lot. There's a lot of discipline connected to them. You can't be as freewheeling as you are with…

— Sydney Pollack

There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.

— Hari Kunzru

When I go to the movies, I like romance, comedy, and thrillers. I hate gore.

— Peter Weller

I dream big, baby. I want to do thrillers, I want to do smart David Lynch-type mysteries.

— Gina Rodriguez

The most interesting thing about horror and thrillers is when there's something deeper going on in the subtext of the film.

— Gareth Evans

The fact is that I like thrillers and action movies. But what really fulfills me is getting out of my comfort zone,…

— Halle Berry

I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers.

— Bruno Tonioli

John Wick is a rousing action thriller of the sort rarely encountered in theaters these days.

— James Berardinelli

Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.

— Lisa Scottoline

I am partial to thrillers but if somebody gives me a script like 'King's Speech' to do, I would love to do…

— Sriram Raghavan

I'm hooked on Polanski's films, his psychological thrillers. I love 'Rosemary's Baby,' I love 'Repulsion.'

— Vera Farmiga

Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.

— Ken Follett

I think the thriller aspect of this film [Fifty Shades Darker] is what excited me most.

— Bella Heathcote