Fantasy Quote by Kim Welsman

I used to watch the 'Jackie Gleason Show' and Phil Silvers, those early TV things. And a lot of them were patterned on the…

— Bill Irwin

In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites out of that were James M. Cain, Dassiell Hammett,…

— Eleanor Catton

“Crime Beat: Stories of Cops and Killers”

— List-Series

I think the "crime novel" has replaced the sociological novel of the 1930s. I think the progenitor of that tradition is James M. Cain,…

— James Lee Burke

I was always interested in the 1920s and the gangster world, in general.

— Terence Winter

We grew up on Scorsese and Coppola and '70s crime thrillers.

— Joe Russo

What sitcom's brilliant at is identifying a social movement or type and skewering it.

— Josh Widdicombe

I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed…

— Frank Miller

I liked sitcoms a lot.

— Cole Escola

We lived a lovely, middle-class, suburban life in Philadelphia. And I really thought that the TV programs of the '50s, like 'Father Knows Best'…

— Richard Corliss

I was not looking for a sitcom, because the philosophy at that point was that you had to make a choice: Were you going…

— Shelley Long

In the '50s and '60s, there were socially relevant films and then in the '80s, we went into an anti-establishment kind of a thing.…

— Mohnish Bahl