Top 388 Thriller Quotes & Sayings

The very name of the thriller '89' suggests that there is suspense.

With 'The Humans,' I've found that because it's related to very familiar forms - the family play and the thriller, almost a genre-collison play - some people want it to be one or the other. Either less dark and more of a family comedy or a full-fledged thriller with blood and ghosts jumping out of closets. Everyone's taste is different.

It is unlike the quintessential thriller where someone is up to something and the audience is speculating. 'Johnny Gaddaar' is the opposite of a thriller. In this case, the audience knows right from the outset what transpires and who the likely culprit is. It is a suspense caper.

I'd been a thriller reader all my life.

Anybody who sits down to write, and they think 'thriller,' maybe shouldn't be thinking that way. Maybe we should be thinking 'novel,' maybe 'thriller' way in the background, but that these are real people to whom things are happening. It just happens to be a hell of an exciting story.

This is not an international thriller so much as a fiercely literate attempt to subvert the thriller genre itself.

You don't ever see a thriller with a spiritual backbone.

He was one of the masters of the thriller and he really was one of the great signposts, because he took the spy thriller out of the gentility of the drawing room and into the back streets of Istanbul and where it all really happened, ... The Day of the Jackal.

I am an avid reader of Sidney Sheldon thriller novels.

The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.

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

Francois Truffaut's 'The Soft Skin' starts with a very mundane scene of a family and a man driving to the airport. Yet the music is like a thriller, and you don't understand why. It's not until later that you learn it's because the movie is a thriller.

As far as writing and directing, I'm very focused on the thriller genre.

The worst situation you can have in a thriller is a lead who looks like he can handle himself.

The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.

Every thriller needs a good bad guy; without a bad guy, there's no thriller.

It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.

People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.

As long as thriller authors teach us about our world, they'll be relevant.

When I first started writing 'Still Missing,' I didn't actually realize I was writing a thriller. I thought it was more women's fiction, but during the many years of rewrites, I kept taking out the boring parts, and then my agent informed me that I had written a thriller.

I'm a fan of the European style, naturalistic thriller.

The first thriller ever? It was probably one from 1697. It was called 'Little Red Riding Hood.'

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.

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A thriller must be thrilling. A mystery may or may not be a thriller depending on how much breathless emotion it has, as opposed to cerebral calculation.

I define 'social thriller' as thriller/horror movies where the ultimate villain is society.

The distinguishing characteristic of the techno-thriller is technical detail.

Polisse' is the sort of cop thriller where people do things like angrily bang on a desktop or sweep everything off it. If it happens once, it must happen six times. But every time it did, I wanted to stand up and cheer, which I've never wanted to do for any such thriller.

'Polisse' is the sort of cop thriller where people do things like angrily bang on a desktop or sweep everything off it. If it happens once, it must happen six times. But every time it did, I wanted to stand up and cheer, which I've never wanted to do for any such thriller.

'Nothing But the Truth' is a journalistic thriller that is set during the end of days for print media.

Since my romance novels had all been thrillers as well, it wasn't such a leap for me to move into the straight thriller genre. The most difficult part, I think, was being accepted as a thriller writer. Once you've written romance, unfortunately, critics will never stop calling you a 'former romance author.'

My #1 job as a thriller author is to give readers the best white-knuckle thrill ride I am capable of. I am first and foremost in the entertainment business. If that suspenseful ride is also terrifying because it hits really close to home, then I am once again doing what I am supposed to do as a thriller author.

The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling.

It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.

I would have turned any offer down, if it had turned into a thriller. I would have seen no point in a thriller here. I don't need to entertain people, on top of what we were doing. It's not a question of whether he did it or not. I would have thought that was banal and uninteresting, and I wouldn't care. And it could have also turned into a shoot-out because there were a lot of guns in the film.

When the 'Thriller' album came up, we all knew that was going to be the cool record.

For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.

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

I really want to make a great record, like my 'Rumours' or 'Thriller.'

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

Sheesha' is a thriller. It was exciting to play my first double role in the film.

Sound design is always critical, especially when you're doing a thriller with a lot of suspense and tension.

With 'House of Cards,' you really get the heart and the meat of drama - and it's a thriller!

When I was a teenager, I used to watch the 'Making Michael Jackson's 'Thriller'' video and try to follow the steps and do the 'Thriller' moves in my bedroom. That was the most incredible dance sequence.

Even in a manuscript form, 'The Girl on the Train' sort of leapt off the pages as a contemporary suspense drama-slash-thriller. It has all the mechanics of a thriller, but at the heart of it was a great character study.

For me, the social thriller is the thriller in which the fears, the horrors, and the thrills are coming from society. They're coming from the way humans interact.

I like a good old thriller.

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

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

I would love to do something in the thriller category. Not so much horror, but I would love to do a full-on psychological thriller. That would be really interesting. A period piece would also be fantastic.

Collins masterfully blends fact and fiction...transcends the historical thriller.

The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.

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

I'd love to make a thriller.

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

Well, if you're writing a thriller, you have to have your character in mortal jeopardy on page 1 or it's not a thriller.

The Strokes can play anything. They could play 'Thriller,' and it would just sound like 'Thriller' as played by the Strokes.

I firmly believe that there is no better thriller writer than Harlan Coben.

I have produced my first film titled 'BMW.' It is a thriller, which has been made keeping in mind the international audience and Indian as well. It is an intelligent thriller and well-made, which will hopefully be appreciated in the international circuit.

Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller.