Thriller Genre Quotes

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

Crime fiction is a genre for writing stories about people - about conflict, about guilt, about passion, about the human condition.

I've always loved the Bond films.

I'm attracted to things that scare me, like 'Psycho,' my favorite Hitchcock movie.

I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read.

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

I don't think anyone can call a movie like 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' a horror movie. It's a jolt. It's a series of jolts followed by a quick one-liner that's wallpapered with an MTV rock & roll soundtrack. That's not horror to me.

The things I discovered when writing 'Line of Duty' were the tools you have available to write a thriller.

The type of movies that give me the heebie jeebies are thrillers, because anything that's playing with your thoughts and mind, that's scary. But one thing that they never do in horror movies that I always do is I pray. You never see them pray in horror movies.

I define a thriller as a big-stakes, multiple-viewpoint novel involving suspense, action, and mystery, in which the reader doesn't know everything but usually knows more than any single character.

I've always really liked murder mysteries and thrillers, and great to be able to be actually part of one.

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.

I'd love to do like a modern day 'Shining' and play the Jack Nicholson role.

I play Harsh Vardhan, a good cop. 'Baaz' is a thriller, in which you doubt every character. I loved the script, as it is very tight and exciting.

As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote.

I think mystery writers and thriller writers - whatever genre you want to call it - are taking on some of the biggest, most interesting kind of socioeconomic issues around in a really interesting, compelling way.

Ironically, I wouldn't say I'm a massive horror fan. I love thrillers.

When I was growing up, my idea of a writer was someone like Sven Hassel, that mysterious Danish author who wrote thrillers about men clambering over walls and getting tangled in barbed wire.

It's kind of like Silence of the lambs meets Boogey Nights.

I have never written a book that I wouldn't want to read. The trouble is, I love to read horror, sf, fantasy, mysteries, hero pulps - romantic fiction, in the original, traditional meaning of that term, as opposed to mimetic fiction. But most of all, I love thrillers.

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.

The horror genre is probably my favorite genre along with psychological thrillers.

The first thriller ever? It was probably one from 1697. It was called 'Little Red Riding Hood.'

'Jack Ryan' is a very fast-paced, very contemporary, very action-driven thriller.

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'!'