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• Political thriller? International thriller? Financial thriller? Whatever you call it, The Ascendant is smart, edgy, fast-paced storytelling at its best. Its unlikely hero, Garrett Reilly, reminded me of a young Jack Reacher as a tech-sa What I said: “Political thriller? International thriller? Financial thriller? Whatever you call it, The Ascendant is smart, edgy, fast-paced storytelling at its best. Its unlikely hero, Garrett Reilly, reminded me of a young Jack Reacher as a tech-savvy bond analyst. Drew Chapman is a debut novelist to watch.

  Alafair Burke

  Smart, Hero, Political

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• Thrillers are an enormous amount of fun for filmmakers.

  John McTiernan

  Fun, Enormous, Filmmaker

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• Why has Scandinavia been producing such good thrillers? Maybe because their filmmakers can't afford millions for CGI and must rely on cheaper elements like, you know, stories and characters.

  Roger Ebert

  Character, Stories, Elements

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• I'm hooked on Polanski's films, his psychological thrillers. I love 'Rosemary's Baby,' I love 'Repulsion.'

  Vera Farmiga

  Baby, Rosemary, Film

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• Thrillers are my favorite. I like stuff that keeps you on the edge of your seat or maybe makes you jump.

  Corey Feldman

  Stuff, My Favorite, Seats

  "Corey Feldman on child actors, his favorite roles, and the Goonies sequel". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. December 10, 2012.

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• Many thrillers follow such reliable formulas that you can look at what's happening and guess how much longer a film has to run.

  Roger Ebert

  Running, Looks, Film

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.240, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Most beginning writers - and I was the same - are like chefs trying to cook great dishes that they've never tasted themselves. How can you make a great - or even an adequate - bouillabaisse if you've never had any? If you don't really understand why people read mysteries - or romances or literary novels or thrillers or whatever - then there's no way in the world you're going to write one that anyone wants to publish. This is the meaning of the well-known expression "Write what you know."

  Daniel Quinn

  Writing, Expression, People

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• I like comedies, I like thrillers, I like love stories. Everything is beautiful; it depends if the film is good, who cares? Everything is interesting.

  Monica Bellucci

  Beautiful, Like Love, Interesting

  "Monica Bellucci Interview - SHOOT 'EM UP". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. September 5, 2007.

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• Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined with unpredictable outcomes. It's a perfect genre in which to explore hard issues of good and evil, a mirror that allows the reader to see both the good and not so good in themselves.

  Ted Dekker

  Mirrors, Dangerous World, Issues

  Interview with Dick Donahue, www.publishersweekly.com. April 20, 2009.

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• I'd love to do a sci-fi movie, a western, or an espionage thriller. But I'm not going to limit myself. If a good script comes along, I'm not going to discount it because it doesn't fit into one of these genres.

  Park Chan-wook

  Limits, Scripts, Fit

  "Director Park Chan-Wook Says Another English-Language Picture In The Works, ‘Snowpiercer’ Almost Finished & Talks His Dream Genres" by Drew Taylor, www.indiewire.com. February 28, 2013.

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• I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.

  Agatha Christie

  Stories, Detectives, Said

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• Six Seconds is a great read. Echoing Ludlum and Forsythe, author Mofina has penned a big, solid international thriller that grabs your gut -- and your heart -- in the opening scenes and never lets go.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Letting Go, Heart, Six

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• Killing Lincoln is a must-read historical thriller. Bill O'Reilly recounts the dramatic events of the spring of 1865 with such exhilarating immediacy that you will feel like you are walking the streets of Washington DC on the night that John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln. This is a hugely entertaining, heart-stopping read.

  Vince Flynn

  Spring, Heart, Night

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• To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude.

  James Frey

  Attitude, Writing, Needs

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• Documentarian Laura Poitras has crafted a first-rate Hitchcockian-type thriller telling the story of Edward Snowden.

  Leonard Maltin

  Stories, Firsts, Type

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• In a thriller, the camera's an active narrator, or can be.

  John McTiernan

  Narrators, Cameras, Active

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• Before I did any action movies, I did a couple of thrillers. That's hung around for me.

  John McTiernan

  Couple, Action, Hung

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• Gripping. Fascinating. Entrancing. The Vesuvius Isotope is 2013's Top Thriller!

  Carolyn Hart

  Isotopes, Gripping, Fascinating

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• I thought why not write a kind of mystery, murder, thriller book, but use romance language where the language plays completely against the very dark subject matter, that very strange murderous plot, but use that Harlequin Romance language.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Book, Writing, Dark

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I actually did an Agatha Christie monologue for my audition showcase at Guildhall, and that's how I got my agent. Some people said 'ooh it's old hat' and 'too risky'. Some people think she's all about the narrative and thriller aspect at the expense of character and I disagree. I did it anyway and it worked well.

  Thomas Howes

  Character, Thinking, People

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• I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court documents... I try to get inside my stories.

  Ben Mezrich

  Writing, Style, Trying

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• I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.

  Valorie Curry

  Horror Genre, Psycho, Problem

  "Valorie Curry Talks THE FOLLOWING, What It’s Like to Play a Psycho, Working with James Purefoy, Her Character’s Future, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 22, 2013.

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• My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.

  Aaron Yoo

  Genius, Film, My Favorite

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• 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

  Thinking, Spy, Genre

  "Jamie Bell Talks Turn, Coming to Television, Physical Challenges, Researching the Historical Setting, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 18, 2014.

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• I'm writing a film called 'Bug.' It's an original script, and it's not about killer insects. It's a thriller set in a high school. The bug of the title refers to a surveillance device.

  Wes Craven

  Writing, School, Titles

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