Bent Quote by Christopher Darden

I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else.

— Karin Fossum

'Criminal Intent' scripts are very good. Like others involved in 'Law & Order' stuff, I've come to appreciate the lack of 'soap,' if you…

— Jamey Sheridan

I look for absurdly simple plots so that I can simply focus on the characters. Having an understanding of what dialogue's easy to say…

— Taylor Sheridan

I'm not much of a plotter. I start off with an inciting incident, and in classic crime fiction what happens is that all the…

— Denise Mina

“ What is the trick for writing dialogue? That you are not running a wiretap for the FBI. I used to have a boyfriend…

— Ann Patchett

After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.

— John Grisham

Law and Order' is completely story-driven and completely characterless, really. If you do that format for five years and you're an actor, you're bound…

— Chris Noth

I just think it's interesting to start a dialogue.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

When you do not have the dialogue to explain things, you will use everything to show and to tell the story. I think that…

— Michel Hazanavicius

'Criminal Justice' is one of the most exciting projects I worked on, as it had a very unique storyline to explore.

— Vikrant Massey

As a filmmaker, I tilt towards stories which are crime-led.

— Sriram Raghavan

Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.

— Stephen King