Thrillers Quotes - Page 2

• It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.

  Rachel Weisz

  Loss, Political, Stories

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• It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face.

  Kevin Spacey

  Missing You, Believe, Lenses

  "New Again: Kevin Spacey". Interview with Mare Winningham, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 27, 2016.

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• I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and not with a gun or by being an action hero.

  Danny Strong

  Hero, Gun, Ideas

  "Screenwriter Danny Strong Talks HBO’s GAME CHANGE, Adapting Dan Brown’s THE LOST SYMBOL, and Lee Daniels’ THE BUTLER". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. Macrh 6, 2012.

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

  James Surowiecki

  Real, Messy, Ambiguous

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• Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.

  Ken Follett

  Bedtime

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• If there's a great story and great characters, then I can love a film in any genre, though crime thrillers and sci-fi have a particular soft spot in my heart.

  Ed Gass-Donnelly

  Heart, Character, Stories

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• As Ralph's character begins to discover the political thriller aspect of the film, he falls deeper in love with his wife, so the two run together. That's the beauty of this film. It has fast pace and excitement, but it also has heart and soul.

  Rachel Weisz

  Beauty, Running, Fall

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• An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.

  Ken Follett

  Fear, Writing, Credit

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• Most beginning writers - and I was the same - are like chefs trying to cook great dishes that they've never tasted themselves. How can you make a great - or even an adequate - bouillabaisse if you've never had any? If you don't really understand why people read mysteries - or romances or literary novels or thrillers or whatever - then there's no way in the world you're going to write one that anyone wants to publish. This is the meaning of the well-known expression "Write what you know."

  Daniel Quinn

  Writing, Expression, People

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• I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder, kidnapping, depravity, horror, violence, and disfigurement.

  Harlan Coben

  Heart, Violence, Horror

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• The Strokes can play anything. They could play 'Thriller,' and it would just sound like 'Thriller' as played by the Strokes.

  Julian Casablancas

  Play, Sound, Strokes

  "Strokes frontman: 'I was hung over for two years'". Interview with Quinn Brown, www.cnn.com. December 3, 2009.

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• You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I already know what it is. It's on the box. And even if I don't, if it's a 5,000-piece puzzle of the 'Mona Lisa', it's not like I put the last piece in and go, 'I had no idea it's the 'Mona Lisa'!'

  Harlan Coben

  Ideas, People, Lasts

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• The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.

  Lee Child

  Writing, Answers, Way

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

  Lee Child

  Dawn, Storytelling, Invention

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• The desire to express in an art form and to compose a tableau and vignette whether it's humorous, burlesque, or poetic comes simply from a desire to compose an image for cinema. It is not my fault that when I go to Ramallah there is a checkpoint and therefore it enters my film. Tell me a way to avoid that politicized image. The fact is that the police are everywhere, the army everywhere and occupation is total. Whether it's a love story or a thriller, you place the camera and these realities will cross the frame.

  Elia Suleiman

  Art, Humorous, Army

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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

  Sophia Bush

  Boards, Horror, Psychological

  Interview with Matt Wiggins, www.ign.com. March 26, 2006.

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• I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.

  Harlan Coben

  Real, Thinking, Friendly

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• The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me.

  Harlan Coben

  Father, Book, Men

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• I'd love to do a sci-fi movie, a western, or an espionage thriller. But I'm not going to limit myself. If a good script comes along, I'm not going to discount it because it doesn't fit into one of these genres.

  Park Chan-wook

  Limits, Scripts, Fit

  "Director Park Chan-Wook Says Another English-Language Picture In The Works, ‘Snowpiercer’ Almost Finished & Talks His Dream Genres" by Drew Taylor, www.indiewire.com. February 28, 2013.

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• Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined with unpredictable outcomes. It's a perfect genre in which to explore hard issues of good and evil, a mirror that allows the reader to see both the good and not so good in themselves.

  Ted Dekker

  Mirrors, Dangerous World, Issues

  Interview with Dick Donahue, www.publishersweekly.com. April 20, 2009.

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• Many thrillers follow such reliable formulas that you can look at what's happening and guess how much longer a film has to run.

  Roger Ebert

  Running, Looks, Film

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.240, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• It's not often a thriller keeps me wound up as well as 'Headhunters' did. I knew I was being manipulated and didn't care. It was a pleasure to see how well it was being done.

  Roger Ebert

  Done, Care, Pleasure

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.234, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Why has Scandinavia been producing such good thrillers? Maybe because their filmmakers can't afford millions for CGI and must rely on cheaper elements like, you know, stories and characters.

  Roger Ebert

  Character, Stories, Elements

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

  Vera Farmiga

  Baby, Rosemary, Film

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• Thrillers are my favorite. I like stuff that keeps you on the edge of your seat or maybe makes you jump.

  Corey Feldman

  Stuff, My Favorite, Seats

  "Corey Feldman on child actors, his favorite roles, and the Goonies sequel". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. December 10, 2012.

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