Quotes About Thriller

Murder and a glass of wine: priceless

When you make a thriller/horror, darkness is [your] friend, because it lets the imagination go wild and what not. So you always end up going into darkness.

The action movie, the thriller and the drama all have safety nets under them. But not the horror film. The horror film can sink to an abyss far darker than the imagination can ever reach.

A traditional mystery is a whodunit, whereas a thriller is a how-can-we-stop-them-from-doing-it. As you compare these seemingly opposite subgenres in Figure 1.1, you'll note that although they differ in essential ways, they share a fundamental element—the use of suspense.

Edgar Wallace

In every thriller written about Washington, particularly after 9/11, there are good guys and there are bad guys, and there's no gray area at all.

When I watch 'Breaking Bad,' my stomach is in knots.

I watched 'Psycho' a million times.

My favorite movie is 'House of Wax.'

There's this film called 'The Pledge', with Jack Nicholson in it. Now that's a dark film.

I love 'The Omen,' just as a piece of plotting.

'The Da Vinci Code' is the most popular book of our times.

The best book I read this year was 'The Da Vinci Code.'

If you don't do the suspense correctly, then your jump scares are not going to work.

For me, suspense is always harder and better than going for the quick, outright scare.

Suspense is a real tough beast in terms of the filmmaking.

Gore, like blood and guts and stuff, I am fine. Suspense, I get super sensitive. I can't handle it.

praised by James Patterson, Dean Koontz, Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Tess Gerritsen, Jeffery Deaver, Sandra Brown, James Rollins, Brad Thor, Nick Stone, David Morrell, Allison Brennan, Heather Graham, Linwood Barclay, Peter Robinson, Håkan

and the award-winning author of several acclaimed thrillers. He's interviewed murderers face-to-face on death row; patrolled with the LAPD and the RCMP. His true crime articles have appeared in The New York Times, Marie Claire, Reader's

She's reading a thriller by David Rosenfelt, one of the great writers of our time,

David Walliams

Redford builds a riveting, resonant political thriller that values the complexity of its characters and the intelligence of its audience.

Elizabeth Peters

But now we live in a time and in a culture when mystery tends to mean something more answerable, it means a crime novel, a thriller, a drama on TV, usually one where we'll find out - and where the whole point of reading it or watching it will be that we will find out - what happened.