Quotes About Thriller

named False Witness the fourth-best legal thriller ever written." "After what?" "Anatomy of a Murder , The Caine Mutiny , and Presumed Innocent.

'World War Z' is basically a big-budget B-movie.

The worst situation you can have in a thriller is a lead who looks like he can handle himself.

I think everything benefits from a little comedy. The worst thing to me is to see a great drama or a great thriller with no laughs.

I can watch 'Mission: Impossible' all day every day. Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt is so hot.

'Heavy Rain' was really close to a dark thriller, like 'Se7en.' 'Beyond' is different in terms of tone.

'The Descent,' 'Dog Soldiers,' those films, I've loved for years, and the tones of those.

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

Big budget. Really? If you are in a horror flick, it's almost certainly alien or satanic in nature. But it's more likely that you've made the common mistake of misdiagnosing a "psychological thriller" as a horror movie. If so, heed this advice: If you're looking for your child, he/she probably never existed. Also: your husband did it.

Sheldon Siegel

A monster movie is only as good as the monster in it.

Dead men don't bleed. A thriller title if ever there was one.

The Third Secret is a page turner--hard to put down as events keep happening. If you are a fan of The Da Vinci Code you will enjoy this book.

Steve Martini

I like comedies, I like thrillers, I like love stories. Everything is beautiful; it depends if the film is good, who cares? Everything is interesting.

I would love to do some kind of mystery movie, or an action flick, something with that combination

While 'Tezz' is being touted as an action-thriller, I feel there is an immense emotional connect.

In 'Se7en' and 'Fight Club,' Fincher proved his suave mastery of film violence; in Zodiac, his way of clarifying the many clues in a murder thriller. As he showed in 'The Social Network,' the director also knows that no wound is more toxic than a friend's betrayal.

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.

I'm big on having a blistering pace. That's one of the hallmarks of what I do, and that's not easy. I never blow up cars and things like that, so it's something else that keeps the suspense flowing. I try not to write a chapter that isn't going to turn on the movie projector in your head.

A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.

I firmly believe that there is no better thriller writer than Harlan Coben.

Harlan Coben

There are moments in 'Body Snatchers' that touch the sort of thing that I find scary... like isolation and the inability to trust even familiar things. But - is that a horror movie - or a thriller? I don't really know the difference.