Thrillers Quotes · Page 4

Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller.

— James Surowiecki

Ironically, I wouldn't say I'm a massive horror fan. I love thrillers.

— Carlton Cuse

For escape, I love popcorn thrillers that you can read in a weekend, like 'Sharp Objects' and 'The Woman in Cabin 10.'

— Krysten Ritter

Documentarian Laura Poitras has crafted a first-rate Hitchcockian-type thriller telling the story of Edward Snowden.

— Leonard Maltin

I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion.

— Italo Calvino

Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.

— Isabel Allende

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

— Vera Farmiga

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

— Kevin Spacey

I don't watch things like 'Jeepers Creepers' or 'Final Destination 53.' I really like more of the psychological thrillers, like 'Rosemary's Baby,'…

— Alex Breckenridge

I read a lot of thrillers because they're easy reading and I'm not a great flier. They take my head out of…

— Georgina Chapman

I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And…

— Emily Watson

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

My preferred genre of reading is crime thrillers - books by Harlan Coben, Jo Nesbo, David Baldacci, James Patterson, Ashwin Sanghi and…

— Ravi Subramanian

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

— Jane Mayer

“They told you that you were safe. They told you lies. You are weak and defeated. For the price of one helicopter,…

— Thomas Waite

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 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've always been fascinated by books. When I was young, my grandfather used to hand out a book - which would be…

— Ashwin Sanghi

Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined…

— Ted Dekker

“Ok now--I don't read "all the time." Remember, that these ratings are over quite a while. I'll try to put in some…

— Umberto Eco

Usually it's just material that resonates with me and I never know exactly what that's gonna be. And there's obviously a certain…

— Michael Landon, Jr

About my work, my first film, Écoute le Temps (Fissures), was positioned by distributors as a thriller because they thought that it…

— Alante Kavaite

“Thrillers, like all genre fiction, remain for the most part “beneath.” There is a feeling in literature, more than any other art…

— Will Lavender

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

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

At the core of investigative journalism is exactly the same thing that drives a page-turning thriller: telling a great story.

— Hank Phillippi Ryan

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

— James Berardinelli

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

— Lee Child

I don't watch things like Jeepers Creepers or Final Destination 53 ½. I really like more of the psychological thrillers.

— Alexandra Breckenridge

I love cop shows and crime books and thrillers, and before I die I'm gonna play a cop.

— Amy Sedaris

I like all of the mental, psychological thriller movies too. I enjoy horror movies across the board.

— Sophia Bush

My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.

— Aaron Yoo

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

— Jeffery Deaver

I grew up on genre - on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels.

— Benjamin Percy

I want to do my Blade Runner, which is like a future Berlin film, which is like a thriller, but it's much…

— Duncan Jones

I thought it would be quite a challenge to direct a mystery thriller. I hadn't really done something like that.

— Catherine Hardwicke

The best movies now are called 'thrillers.' Because if you use the word 'horror,' people's associations are straight-to-video crap.

— Eli Roth

I went see the horror thriller, Hannibal. I am a massive fan of Anthony Hopkins. He is superb in the film.

— David Ginola