Top 1200 Detective Work Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

A detective story is just the premise for conflict, as a Western is.

A really good detective never gets married.

'True Detective' did change my career.

I play a detective, very close to myself actually.

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

Where there's a will there's a detective story.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a spy detective or a rock star.

I read a lot of detective novels.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

I think if you need to use a gun you're doing a lousy job as a detective.

Operating in an unlit world, the unconscious mind is a brilliant detective.

You need a crime, a detective, and the solution.

Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked.

I'm not cut out to be a detective on 'Law & Order' - I laugh too easily.

I'd love to do a Columbo-type detective character in a series.

That's all the Joker is. It's Batman without love. The Riddler is the opposite of that. It's the detective in him.

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

I've always felt if you followed a real private detective around, it would be boring.

I like the idea of playing a historical detective.

I never once regretted doing "True Detective".

I was at the beginning stages of my pregnancy, and it never really feels real anyway, until you actually start showing and you start to feel the baby kick. Fortunately I didn't have any morning sickness or anything like that. And I really didn't want to be distracted from the work at hand, so I didn't tell anybody. It was really just towards the end of shooting where I was about five months, where I needed to tell a costume designer[ of the True Detective].

[T]he historian and the detective have much in common.

As a biographer, I try to uncover the adventures and personalities behind each character I research. Once my character and I have reached an understanding, then I begin the detective work reading old books, old letters, old newspapers, and visiting the places where my subject lived. Often I turn up surprises, and of course, I pass them on.

I'm really into the detective drama genre.

With any project I work on - not just 'True Detective' - I don't feel the need just to play a strong woman. I don't want the audience to say, 'Oh, she was so strong.' I want to play characters that are flawed and interesting.

Mobius is like a detective in the way that he works with Loki.

It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again." Yes, it is very true, that. And it is just what some people will not do. They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant.

It's totally different playing a lawyer and a detective.

The instant they say something you don't expect or already know, you should drop into detective mode.

A show like 'True Detective' is definitely a drama.

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.

I didn't expect anything crazy to happen from 'True Detective.'

'True Detective' would not pass The Bechdel Test.

I was really bummed when I got to the last one of Tony Hillerman Navajo detective books.

Your novels show only the tiniest fraction of detective work, the brilliant crime, the tantalizing clues, the dramatic chase, the final battle atop a lofty peak with ocean waves crashing down below, and then… justice served! If they wrote about the real world, four-fifths of the story would consist of the hero sitting in a library for months and following false leads.

The detective and his criminal wear versions of the same mask.

If I write scripts that nobody likes, I don't think we'll be doing 'True Detective.'

Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.

The old detective story that's got a really complicated motive doesn't apply to mine.

You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.

make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression.

I think like a detective.

I used to work as a private detective years and years ago. And my boss gave me this one very simple piece of advice about trying to figure out who to interview first in any investigation. His recommendation: Always pick the people who were fired. Pick the people who are pissed off.

When I was younger, I watched all the detective shows.

There is little novelty in the detective who cannot solve himself.

The detective genre is not easy because you've got to get to a conclusion that is unexpected.

I found out a few months after we started [True Detective] that I was pregnant.

I'm watching The Singing Detective.' I'm rather taken by it.

A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.

The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals.

If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.

Nothing in the television show 'True Detective' was plagiarized.

I watch all the shows. From 'Breaking Bad' to 'Game of Thrones.' 'Scandal' and 'True Detective.'

When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. Then it happens we were in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed it's bad business to let the killer get away with it. It's bad all around-bad for that one organization, bad for every detective everywhere. Sam Spade

Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art.

At first I imagined I'd write detective novels, because I loved 'Nancy Drew.'

The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.