Thrillers famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Gripping. Fascinating. Entrancing. The Vesuvius Isotope is 2013's Top Thriller!
-- Carolyn Hart -
I'd have liked to have leant against walls in thrillers.
-- Celia Johnson -
This is not an international thriller so much as a fiercely literate attempt to subvert the thriller genre itself.
-- Christopher Rice -
Thrillers are my favorite. I like stuff that keeps you on the edge of your seat or maybe makes you jump.
-- Corey Feldman -
For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world.
-- Dan Brown -
The worst situation you can have in a thriller is a lead who looks like he can handle himself.
-- Daniel Craig -
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.
-- David Baldacci -
You can't do psychological thrillers. There's no audience. I've heard this. I've heard this from studios.
-- Eriq La Salle -
If you take real-life circumstances and take out all the pauses then you have a thriller. It has to be non-stop, high stakes and fascinating all the time. Real life is like that from time to time.
-- Hank Phillippi Ryan -
John Wick is a rousing action thriller of the sort rarely encountered in theaters these days.
-- James Berardinelli -
Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller.
-- James Surowiecki -
I think it was the sense that Turn is a spy thriller, and that's a genre that really fascinates me, in general.
-- Jamie Bell -
For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.
-- Jeffery Deaver -
In a thriller, the camera's an active narrator, or can be.
-- John McTiernan -
Before I did any action movies, I did a couple of thrillers. That's hung around for me.
-- John McTiernan -
Thrillers are an enormous amount of fun for filmmakers.
-- John McTiernan -
Allthough that doesn't happen often lately, I like to read exciting thrillers and those kinky magazines.
-- Jonathan Brandis -
The Strokes can play anything. They could play 'Thriller,' and it would just sound like 'Thriller' as played by the Strokes.
-- Julian Casablancas -
I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.
-- Kate Mosse -
The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.
-- Ken Follett -
Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.
-- Ken Follett -
Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.
-- Ken Follett -
I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it.
-- Lana Parrilla -
Documentarian Laura Poitras has crafted a first-rate Hitchcockian-type thriller telling the story of Edward Snowden.
-- Leonard Maltin -
I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain.
-- Maeve Binchy -
You don't ever see a thriller with a spiritual backbone.
-- Patrick Wilson -
People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.
-- Scott Turow -
It's the doubt that is really a major ingredient of the paranoid thriller.
-- Alice Winocour -
I've seen many films and read lots of thrillers - and I'm always disappointed that I can guess the story before the other viewers.
-- Claude Lelouch -
I'm a fan of the European style, naturalistic thriller.
-- George Ratliff -
I like thrillers. My style of movies are closer to thrillers.
-- Olivier Megaton -
Redford builds a riveting, resonant political thriller that values the complexity of its characters and the intelligence of its audience.
-- Peter Travers -
I was 21, when I heard the story that inspired this [thriller Allied], and I wasn't even a screenwriter then.
-- Steven Knight -
The situation that women were in, at the time, was something that Dumas doesn't really go into, but it's a great subject to look at. It's a great genre because you can do a lot. Sometimes in thrillers, you can really explore things, and it's the same in this genre.
-- Adrian Hodges -
I like speed in thrillers. It's a rhythm adapted to the subject.
-- Philippe Claudel -
A thriller becomes great when it carries a feeling of reality and truth.
-- David Morrell -
As long as thriller authors teach us about our world, they'll be relevant.
-- David Morrell -
At their best, thrillers not only entertain. Ideally they also reflect the society in which they are set, analyzing our fears and how we perceive the world.
-- David Morrell
