Quotes About Thriller

'Without a Trace' analyzes criminal behavior in the special context of a disappearance. We consider it a suspense thriller.

A dream acting role would be Matt Damon in the Bourne series. I would love to do something like that!

'The Silence of the Lambs' is my favourite book, favourite film.

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

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Since my romance novels had all been thrillers as well, it wasn't such a leap for me to move into the straight thriller genre. The most difficult part, I think, was being accepted as a thriller writer. Once you've written romance, unfortunately, critics will never stop calling you a 'former romance author.'

Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel to show they could compete with the best. If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he would definitely have written at least one thriller.

Back when the concept of organ transplants qualified as science fiction, novelist Maurice Renard wrote a thriller called 'Les Mains d'Orlac.' Call it a bastard offspring of 'Frankenstein;' its plot revolved around the old theme of Science Giving Us Stuff We Shouldn't Have - in this particular case, restoring severed body parts.

Kickback is a police thriller which I wrote. I'm very proud of it. I did it in two parts for France because when I wrote it, there wasn't the audience demand for crime stuff that there is now.

'Don't Look Back' is my first YA contemporary mystery/thriller. It's been described as 'Black Swan' meets 'Pretty Little Liars'.

Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists.

Yeah I think Pitch Black was edgy, I think that's what worked for our film.

In my peaceful moments, I yearn to write a bank heist like the one in 'Heat.'

I think 'The Searcher' is a departure from my first because it's less grounded in religion and is far more rooted in the mythic tradition: more of an existential thriller where the main character is actually the central mystery, and his journey is all about trying to figure himself out.

'Codename Baboushka' is an action-packed modern pulp spy thriller, in the sort of British tradition of 'Modesty Blaise', New Avengers and of course James Bond. It's a book about Contessa Annika Malikova, the last of a noble Russian line and an enigmatic, mysterious figure in New York high society.

Thriller novelists get asked - berated, sometimes - about whether their work glorifies bad behavior, even, exploits human tragedy for entertainment.

One would argue what they do to me on 'Jokers' is already horror. It's an easy transition to write a thriller.

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

One of the beauties of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is the very delicate and strange relationship between the two main characters.

Michael Connelly

Michael Connelly

Michael Connelly

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