Aware Quote by Diane Ladd

At their best, thrillers not only entertain. Ideally they also reflect the society in which they are set, analyzing our fears and how we…

— David Morrell

With the police thriller genre, people come to it with an expectation. It allows you to get away with a bit of violence, edginess,…

— Jed Mercurio

I think fantasy thrillers excite audiences as, inherently, people have a fascination for the unknown and the unexplained.

— Krystle D'Souza

Thrillers are an enormous amount of fun for filmmakers.

— John McTiernan

It's interesting how thrillers reflect the times we live in.

— Peter Hitchens

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

— Ted Dekker

Thrillers rely on certain archetypes and our familiarity with them is quietly driving all of the tension. So it becomes an interesting challenge from…

— Oneohtrix Point Never

A thriller needs to hold the interest of the reader from the very beginning. It needs to engage with them, hold them in rapt…

— Ravi Subramanian

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

— Fiona Barton

Anybody who sits down to write, and they think 'thriller,' maybe shouldn't be thinking that way. Maybe we should be thinking 'novel,' maybe 'thriller'…

— David Morrell

A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that…

— Garry Disher

I don't know - personally, I don't watch many films where the violence itself is the main entertainment, because I find them boring.

— Stellan Skarsgard