Thrillers Quotes · Page 8

What's really going on here is, this is a media shift. It's comparable to what happened in the 1950s and the birth…

— Esther Dyson

She understood now why her friend Elizabeth, with her near-genius, analytical mind gave wide berth to murder mysteries, psychological thrillers, and horror…

— Karen Marie Moning

I would have turned any offer down, if it had turned into a thriller. I would have seen no point in a…

— Mads Mikkelsen

“She closed her eyes briefly, feeling sick. Olivia had experienced strangulation before. Having to look directly into the face of the person…

— Leslie Parrish

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

I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.

— Agatha Christie

To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude.

— James Frey

With thrillers, there's such a fine line between what's good and what's cheesy and corny.

— Olivia d'Abo

As long as thriller authors teach us about our world, they'll be relevant.

— David Morrell

In a thriller, the camera's an active narrator, or can be.

— John McTiernan

Women who write thrillers are called 'dark.' Male writers are called 'powerful.'

— Karin Slaughter

I storyboard every shot of my thrillers in general. I draw them out and do them.

— M. Night Shyamalan

I always wanted to write psychological thrillers.

— Lisa Jewell

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

— Anonymous

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

— John McTiernan

Gripping. Fascinating. Entrancing. The Vesuvius Isotope is 2013's Top Thriller!

— Carolyn Hart

I think I'll stick with psychological thrillers.

— Sara Shepard

I read a lot fewer thrillers than I think people assume I do.

— Chelsea Cain

For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.

— Jeffery Deaver

I think it was the sense that Turn is a spy thriller, and that's a genre that really fascinates me, in general.

— Jamie Bell

Its the details and the human element that makes Recount entertaining. Even though we know how the election ends, it plays like…

— Kevin Spacey

Ive done thrillers and Ive done a horror movie and definitely want to do an action movie, more than anything.

— Katie Cassidy

The worst situation you can have in a thriller is a lead who looks like he can handle himself.

— Daniel Craig

If it's comedy, you taken an absurd comedic notion and you apply it to reality. If it's horror, if it's a thriller,…

— Jordan Peele

When you think about it, psychological thrillers often involve extraordinary events happening to ordinary people.

— Fiona Barton

I like comedies, I like thrillers, I like love stories. Everything is beautiful; it depends if the film is good, who cares?…

— Monica Bellucci

“I tell everyone who asks me about writing...almost everyone has an idea for a book, and some even have a great ending,…

— Brooklyn Hudson

Now, I'm a failed political consultant. But sometimes fiction has a way of capturing people's imagination in a way that non-fiction doesn't.…

— Joel C. Rosenberg

Three Days of the Condor is still an interesting film to watch not because it's political. It happens to be political. But…

— Sydney Pollack

When I think of the future, I think a lot of Quincy Jones and how he is an inspiration. Look at the…

— Dr. Dre

Police thrillers are so widely read and police dramas so commonplace on television that many people think they have a good understanding…

— Daniel Horan

Yes, to me that's one of the most compelling fears in film noir and the psychological thriller genre - that fear of…

— Christopher Nolan

I have never written a book that I wouldn't want to read. The trouble is, I love to read horror, sf, fantasy,…

— F. Paul Wilson

I kept thinking maybe in the future editions [of Dark Money] I should sell it along with, like, some kind of, you…

— Jane Mayer

My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantasy, and now I'm writing thrillers, more…

— Ted Dekker

Collins masterfully blends fact and fiction...transcends the historical thriller.

— Jeffery Deaver

The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling.

— Lee Child

For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world.

— Dan Brown

“Why did I decide to write cyber thrillers? Because we've gone from the Cold War to the Code War.”

— Thomas Waite

“He brought the Glock up to shoulder height. He had one up the snout giving him fourteen rounds of influence.”

— Norman Applegate