1.
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
2.
I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it.
Lana Parrilla
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You can't do psychological thrillers. There's no audience. I've heard this. I've heard this from studios.
Eriq La Salle
4.
I'd have liked to have leant against walls in thrillers.
Celia Johnson
5.
Allthough that doesn't happen often lately, I like to read exciting thrillers and those kinky magazines.
Jonathan Brandis
6.
Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.
Graham Greene
7.
The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.
Julianna Baggott
8.
Thrillers are an enormous amount of fun for filmmakers.
John McTiernan
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In a thriller, the camera's an active narrator, or can be.
John McTiernan
10.
You don't ever see a thriller with a spiritual backbone.
Patrick Wilson
11.
Before I did any action movies, I did a couple of thrillers. That's hung around for me.
John McTiernan
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The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.
Ken Follett
13.
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
14.
Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.
Ken Follett
15.
There are certain tenets set in place for all different types on genres. For thrillers, women usually die first.
Katie Aselton
16.
Gripping. Fascinating. Entrancing. The Vesuvius Isotope is 2013's Top Thriller!
Carolyn Hart
17.
The Strokes can play anything. They could play 'Thriller,' and it would just sound like 'Thriller' as played by the Strokes.
Julian Casablancas
18.
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
19.
The worst situation you can have in a thriller is a lead who looks like he can handle himself.
Daniel Craig
20.
I like thrillers. My style of movies are closer to thrillers.
Olivier Megaton
21.
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
22.
Thrillers are my favorite. I like stuff that keeps you on the edge of your seat or maybe makes you jump.
Corey Feldman
23.
Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.
Ken Follett
24.
As long as thriller authors teach us about our world, they'll be relevant.
David Morrell
25.
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
26.
I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain.
Maeve Binchy
27.
For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.
Jeffery Deaver
28.
It's the doubt that is really a major ingredient of the paranoid thriller.
Alice Winocour
29.
I'm a fan of the European style, naturalistic thriller.
George Ratliff
30.
I'd been a thriller reader all my life.
Lee Child
31.
A thriller becomes great when it carries a feeling of reality and truth.
David Morrell
32.
Redford builds a riveting, resonant political thriller that values the complexity of its characters and the intelligence of its audience.
Peter Travers
33.
People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.
Scott Turow
34.
John Wick is a rousing action thriller of the sort rarely encountered in theaters these days.
James Berardinelli
35.
I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.
Agatha Christie
36.
I like speed in thrillers. It's a rhythm adapted to the subject.
Philippe Claudel
37.
I was 21, when I heard the story that inspired this [thriller Allied], and I wasn't even a screenwriter then.
Steven Knight
38.
Documentarian Laura Poitras has crafted a first-rate Hitchcockian-type thriller telling the story of Edward Snowden.
Leonard Maltin
39.
This is not an international thriller so much as a fiercely literate attempt to subvert the thriller genre itself.
Christopher Rice
40.
I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.
Kate Mosse
41.
I storyboard every shot of my thrillers in general. I draw them out and do them.
M. Night Shyamalan
42.
Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller.
James Surowiecki
43.
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
44.
The thriller genre in general, it's total foreign ground for me.
Katie Aselton