Thrillers Quotes

• The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, you know, where you have an opportunity every day to shoot it in an unusual way. I was looking for something like that.

  Lawrence Kasdan

  Opportunity, Want, Way

  Interview with Scott Collura, www.ign.com. March 21, 2003.

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• I don't like writing straight-up thrillers. I like writing about families hurled into crisis and danger - soccer moms and regular dads and husbands who might have to rescue their daughters or who are, say, hedge fund managers and have one foot on the sidelines watching their kids and the other in nefarious cover-ups and conspiracies.

  Andrew Gross

  Soccer, Mom, Daughter

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

  Lana Parrilla

  Scary, Horror, Creeps

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose.

  James Patterson

  Fun, School, Thinking

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

  Eriq La Salle

  Psychological, Heard, Audience

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it's very character driven.

  Emily Watson

  Character, Thinking, Dragons

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• I'd have liked to have leant against walls in thrillers.

  Celia Johnson

  Wall

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• For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all captivated me by providing glimpses into realms about which I knew very little - medical science, submarine technology and the law.

  Dan Brown

  Real, Technology, Law

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• For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world.

  Dan Brown

  Real, Submarines, World

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• Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.

  Graham Greene

  Literature

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Collected Edition: The ministry of fear”

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• Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.

  Ken Follett

  Book, Character, Masculine

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

  Julianna Baggott

  Writing, Intricacy, Formal

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• As long as thriller authors teach us about our world, they'll be relevant.

  David Morrell

  Our World, Long, Teach

  Source: bookpage.com

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• I think everyone should read The Girl on The Train, especially if they loved Gone Girl. It's about Rachel, a girl who sees a couple on her commute. Then one day she sees one of the people from the couple kiss another person. The next day they go missing. The story is told by 3 different perspectives, all characters you absolutely can't trust. It's an insane psychological thriller that's seriously addicting and the kind of book you can't put down.

  Kyle

  Girl, Couple, Book

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• The definition of horror is pretty broad. What causes us "horror" is actually a many splendored thing (laughs). It can be hard to make horror accessible, and that's what I think Silence of the Lambs did so brilliantly - it was an accessible horror story, the villain was a monster, and the protagonist was pure of heart and upstanding so it had all of these great iconographic elements of classic storytelling. It was perceived less as a horror movie than an effective thriller, but make no mistake, it was a horror movie and was sort of sneaky that way.

  Bryan Fuller

  Mistake, Heart, Thinking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I'm more of a thriller-horror fan - things that could really happen. I don't like scary movies, the 'Saw' movies scare the crap out of me - I think I've seen two of them and I wanted to go crawl in a hole.

  Katee Sackhoff

  Thinking, Two, Scary

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• No Way Back is my kind of novel - a tough, taut thriller - Mofina knows the world he writes about.

  Michael Connelly

  Writing, World, Way

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• About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell... I defy anybody to read the first page and not keep going to the last.

  Lev Grossman

  Smart, Perfect, Pages

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• Redford builds a riveting, resonant political thriller that values the complexity of its characters and the intelligence of its audience.

  Peter Travers

  Character, Political, Complexity

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• When you're playing the devil, you're playing the ultimate evil. There are no boundaries. In doing a film in the horror genre or a psychological thriller, you're really pushed as an actress, you're pushed way outside of your comfort zone. Emotionally, mentally, and physically. That's when things really get fun.

  Ashley Bell

  Fun, Horror Genre, Evil

  "Ashley Bell: Passion for a Skill". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Throat clutching from the outset! The Never List stands as a sterling example of psychological thriller writing at its best. Cancel appointments and give up on sleep. It's that kind of book.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Giving Up, Book, Writing

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• For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Stories

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• Yes, to me that's one of the most compelling fears in film noir and the psychological thriller genre - that fear of conspiracy. It's definitely something that I have a fear of - not being in control of your own life. I think that's something people can relate to, and those genres are most successful when they derive the material from genuine fears that people have.

  Christopher Nolan

  Successful, Thinking, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers. I think that The Game is a movie and I think Fight Club's a film. I think that Fight Club is more than the sum of its parts, whereas Panic Room is the sum of its parts. I didn't look at Panic Room and think, "Wow, this is gonna set the world on fire". These are footnote movies, guilty pleasure movies. Thrillers. Woman-trapped-in-a-house movies. They're not particularly important.

  David Fincher

  Fighting, Thinking, Fire

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I want to do my Blade Runner, which is like a future Berlin film, which is like a thriller, but it's much deeper characters, I think.

  Duncan Jones

  Character, Thinking, Blade Runner

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