John Lasseter Quotes

I love the spy genre.

I've always loved spy stories. Who can resist?

The spy genre is something which, as a fan of movies, a movie geek myself, I just love that cinematic joy that they bring.

I think, primarily, we love spy thrillers, and I think, instinctively, we love the tension that those thrillers can bring.

When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.

'Homeland' is a thriller with a lot of cloak and dagger spy stuff, which is one of the things that makes it so much fun.

I always liked spy stories.

Every time I tell someone that I'm doing 'Spooks,' they're like, 'Wow!' That's a guaranteed reaction. It's such a high-end show, it's so sexy and slick and smooth.

I didn't think that and I didn't verbalize that to myself or within meetings that we ever had, but we wanted to make a hard-nosed, gritty, realistic spy thriller. Roger talked about using lenses. He shot hi-def, but using anamorphic lenses that he'd found from this warehouse. He was so thrilled with that. Him and Romain [Lacourbas] were just like kids in a toy store with their lenses.

You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.

I think I honestly invented my own genre, the historical spy novel.

I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot.

I love the combination of the words 'spies' and 'Balkans.' It's like meat and potatoes.

Thrillers are an enormous amount of fun for filmmakers.

I'm a huge fan of the 'James Bond' genre.

The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story.

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

What I would love is a crossover between 'Royal Pains' and 'Burn Notice,' that we could be involved in some sort of gun play intrigue. I would really love that because we have no guns. We have nowhere near enough explosions and guns on the set.

It's a thrilling world, and people really like stories about secrets, which is the essence of a spy drama.

I like thrillers. My style of movies are closer to thrillers.

Normally in spy movies, the person that the hero deals with is at the centre of power, surrounded by video screens, and they're old and grizzled. I'm no stranger to that dynamic.

Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure.

I'm sure, in real life, spying is boring - there's probably a lot of sitting around and plenty of paperwork. But the world seems to think that spying is exciting, and that's how movies get made.

I grew up on action movies. I love the James Bond and Jason Bourne movies.

I love writing thrillers.