Thrillers Quotes - Page 9

• Thanks to the success of Henning Mankell and Peter Hoeg, there wasn't the same stigma attached to writing genre thrillers in Scandinavia as there was in many other cultures. Quite the opposite, in fact.

  Jo Nesbo

  Writing, Other Cultures, Opposites

  "Jo Nesbø: 'If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he'd have written a thriller'". Interview with John Crace, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2012.

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• Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel to show they could compete with the best. If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he would definitely have written at least one thriller.

  Jo Nesbo

  Crime Novels, Names, Fiction

  "Jo Nesbø: 'If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he'd have written a thriller'". Interview with John Crace, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2012.

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• If you do any thriller or horror movie a big part of the process is accounting for the cell phone.

  Jaume Collet-Serra

  Phones, Cells, Horror

  Source: collider.com

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• [ The Finest Hours] reminded me a lot of a film I did called Unstoppable in that you have a driving thriller aspect of the film and it's not all that complicated of a story and there's a simple elegance to it. I liked that. It is also driven by a really strong romance and ordinary men doing extraordinary things. I love that.

  Chris Pine

  Strong, Simple, Men

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• I love outsider stories. And I also like a lot of genre fiction, too. So I wanted to write a literary book that flirted with thriller and fantasy and even science fiction. I wanted the coming-of-age story and the love story to be about "outsiderdom" - one of the themes I am most interested in.

  Porochista Khakpour

  Book, Writing, Age

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I love thrillers. I've never made them, but I would say a really good thriller is my favorite kind of a movie. If I can get a really great thriller, you know.

  Rob Reiner

  Kind, My Favorite, Made

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I think of the future, I think a lot of Quincy Jones and how he is an inspiration. Look at the quality of his work over so many years. He didn't even make his best record, 'Thriller,' until he was 50. That gives me something to look forward to. Nothing pulls you back into the studio more than the belief that your best record is still ahead.

  Dr. Dre

  Inspiration, Thinking, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think it's more difficult now to write a spy thriller with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Many authors have tried, but few have succeeded in capturing the interest of readers.

  Nelson DeMille

  Writing, Thinking, Spy

  Talk City Network Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. 2000.

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• Entourage [movie] really is established as a genre unto itself, much like the thriller or the horror movie or the comedy. And those things trend.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Trends, Comedy, Horror

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Three Days of the Condor is still an interesting film to watch not because it's political. It happens to be political. But that's not why the sales of the DVDs are as high as they are. It's because it's an entertaining thriller. In my opinion, Tootsie is a very political movie but truck drivers can go and laugh at it.

  Sydney Pollack

  Dvds, Laughing, Interesting

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• Although I love all genres, I really love to play in two main arenas: Comedy and Thriller/Horror. In either genre I love playing flawed, layered characters that are actively fighting to achieve something in the story.

  Kyle Cassie

  Character, Fighting, Play

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• The thriller genre in general, it's total foreign ground for me.

  Katie Aselton

  Genre, Thriller Genre

  Source: www.gq.com

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• It's the doubt that is really a major ingredient of the paranoid thriller.

  Alice Winocour

  Doubt, Ingredients, Paranoid

  "Alice Winocour’s Chaos and Order". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 10, 2016.

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• Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.

  Isabel Allende

  People, Romance, Political

  "Author Isabel Allende". "Tell Tavis" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 12, 2010.

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• I am comfortable calling myself a writer of suspense, or a writer of thrillers; both terms are sort of interchangeable to me. I think that came from a sense of being at conflict with my true nature throughout my youth, and being afraid of discovery, and feeling as if I didn't belong.

  Christopher Rice

  Thinking, Discovery, Feelings

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• I think that I am profoundly influenced by writers who have explored loss, and longing, and fear. Those influences have turned me into a thriller writer, essentially.

  Christopher Rice

  Loss, Thinking, Influence

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• 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.

  Jaume Collet-Serra

  Imagination, Darkness, Horror

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  World, Analyzing, Perceive

  Source: bookpage.com

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• A thriller becomes great when it carries a feeling of reality and truth.

  David Morrell

  Reality, Feelings, Carrie

  Source: bookpage.com

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• After having edited numerous shorts, earning award nominations for it, and then 4 features edits, the director inside me is now burning to share its voice. Thriller, Horror, zany Comedy.

  Kyle Cassie

  Voice, Awards, Nominations

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• Six Seconds should be Rick Mofina's breakout thriller. It moves like a tornado.

  James Patterson

  Moving, Tornadoes, Six

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• I read anything I could get my hands on: science fiction, fantasy, horror, thrillers. I even became hooked on the Bantam reprints of the old pulp novels from thirties and forties: Doc Savage, The Shadow, The Avenger.

  James Rollins

  Hands, Shadow, Savages

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• When I was a kid, I was into psychological thrillers. When I was 12, my favorite movie was 'Thirteen.' I just really liked movies that showed an extreme range in acting. That's what made me want to become an actress.

  Leven Rambin

  Kids, Acting, Want

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The main question raised by the thriller is not what kind of world we live in, or what reality is like, but what it has done to us.

  Ralph Harper

  Reality, Done, World

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• I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes.

  Isabel Allende

  Believe, Book, Self

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