Thrillers Quotes · Page 3

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

— John McTiernan

I'm a fan of the European style, naturalistic thriller.

— George Ratliff

I've read one too many thrillers that had really horrible technology in them.

— Daniel Suarez

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

— Olivia d'Abo

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— Daniel Borough

I've seen many films and read lots of thrillers - and I'm always disappointed that I can guess the story before the…

— Claude Lelouch

There are certain tenets set in place for all different types on genres. For thrillers, women usually die first.

— Katie Aselton

“I write thrillers for the same reason that people read them – it's escapism.”

— Ken McClure

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

— Agatha Christie

“But those who read thrillers are an impatient race. They chafe at scenic rhapsodies and want to get on to the rough…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“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

I'm writing a film called 'Bug.' It's an original script, and it's not about killer insects. It's a thriller set in a…

— Wes Craven

All those who love thrillers will find in Michael Alexiades's first novel a source of great pleasure and satisfaction. It combines suspense…

— Elie Wiesel

I was in a movie called 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' and that was my first leading role in a movie. It's an…

— Jacob Latimore

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

— Hank Phillippi Ryan

I like westerns, fantasy, sci-fi, graphic novels, thrillers, and I try to avoid the word 'genre' altogether. A good book is a…

— Gillian Flynn

“Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours…

— William Shakespeare

Zombies don't run. They don't dance. They don't say, "More brains." There is no Thriller Night. Those are stereotypes that are perpetrated…

— Max Brooks

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

— Daniel Horan

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

“She hit the button again, holding her breath this time until she heard it. Soft, sibilant, as insubstantial as the breaths that…

— Jane Taylor Starwood

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

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

— Dr. Dre

For me, the thing that I love about the show is the psychological thriller aspect of it. It's frightening and it's scary,…

— Kyra Zagorsky

More and more, I play myself, as I get older. Even as a writer, I never got typecast. I've always bounced from…

— Jim Piddock

I write what I want to write. Period. I don't write novels-for-hire using media tie-in characters, I don't write suspense novels or…

— Bentley Little

I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.

— Valorie Curry

With thrillers, I tend to concentrate on the research and pace more than the characters.

— Ravi Subramanian

I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it.

— Lana Parrilla

I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.

— Charles Stross

I'm really into kind of a 'Sixth Sense' type of movie - mysteries, thrillers a little bit.

— Shaun Livingston

The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty?

— Brigid Brophy

I have 20 or 30 books completely plotted out in my mind - mysteries, thrillers, horror, romance, science fiction. You name it.

— Christopher Paolini

I was 21, when I heard the story that inspired this [thriller Allied], and I wasn't even a screenwriter then.

— Steven Knight

You can't do psychological thrillers. There's no audience. I've heard this. I've heard this from studios.

— Eriq La Salle

The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.

— Julianna Baggott

I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me Canadas scariest writer, and I love that.

— Andrew Pyper

For thrillers, it's especially difficult to carve out a good trailer.

— Sriram Raghavan

I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes.

— Isabel Allende

If you're going to write thrillers, you have to make a decision if you are going to be realistic or go off…

— Karin Slaughter