Quotes About Thriller

For me it's about creating and sustaining tension for as long as possible, and I'm not generally interested in allowing that tension to be deflated, especially by a jump scare.

Your fragile mind can't have forgotten the terrifying technothriller series known 'Scorpion'. Because it features the worst hacking scenes ever broadcast in any medium.

It's sort of an action flick. You can't be that funny trying to steal diamonds.

But the thing is, you see -and to be honest, I don't like to mention this- I'm a bit short. There just aren't enough people getting murdered.

Anthony Horowitz

Anthony Horowitz

Anthony Horowitz

Anthony Horowitz

Anthony Horowitz

Anthony Horowitz

British TV would disappear into a dot on the screen without murder.

'It Follows' is one of the best movies I've ever seen.

I'm a massive fan of the 'Bourne' franchise, and I think Damon's brilliant in it, and I love the films. I'm really into it.

The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me.

'Rear Window' isn't really a horror film, but it is a psychological drama, which I love. It is very tense.

I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.

I have never done a thriller, and it will just be really fun for me to heave and pant and run and climb and break windows and scream every once in a while.

I think it is immensely difficult to get the U.S. interested in non-U.S. topics. I don't think this is because the average American reader is disinterested, but more because of publishers playing it safe: if a thriller based in L.A. is a sure winner, why spend money plugging one based in Paris - or Bangkok?

I've never been a big horror genre fan, but I did go see 'Nightmare on Elm Street' in the theaters and I dug it. I thought it was cool.

007 n. the fictional British secret agent James Bond, or someone based on, inspired by, or reminiscent of him.

I thought 'The Bank Job' was a really quality movie.

I like gangster movies, personally.

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

In general, just as a framing, we always thought about 'Winter Soldier' very specifically as a political thriller.