Thriller Quotes

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I want to try a lot of things that I haven`t tried. You know, I did a thriller (Red Eye) after this, because it was so different and it was a genre I hadn`t worked in yet. Then I did a beautiful family ensemble drama. And next? I don`t know. I might go off to do a small independent in New York. I`m not sure. The quality of material is important but, basically, I`m open to anything. I like to stay open to anything.

- Rachel McAdams

(On the stunt scenes he did for his thriller Crazy Six (1998)): I told them, "Look, I can do this. I can still fall; I just can`t get up!" But the character is dead, anyway!

- Burt Reynolds

I thought it was a helluva thriller. JFK`s murder marked the end of a dream, the end of a concept of idealism that I associate with my youth. Race war, Vietnam, Watergate. If JFK had lived, the combat situation in Vietnam would never have occurred.

- Oliver Stone

I`m a reader, you know. I was corrupted by Faust. And Shakespeare. And Proust. And Hemingway. But mostly I was corrupted by Dylan Thomas. Most people see me as a rake, womanizer, boozer and purchaser of large baubles. I`m all those things depending on the prism and the light. But mostly I`m a reader. Give me Agatha Christie for an hour and I`m happy as a clam. The house in Celigny some day will cave in under its own weight from the books. I hope I`m there when it does. One hundred six years old. Investigating the newest thriller from Le Carré or a new play from Tennessee Williams.

- Richard Burton

(on filming The Interpreter (2005) at UN headquarters in New York) As a backdrop for a thriller, it`s fantastic, but also since I`m Australian and I`ve always worked internationally and this is an international place in New York, I really like the kind of communication it represents. I know I sound very much like my character now, but I do believe in this place.

- Nicole Kidman

That`s what everyone said attracted them to Lantana - I call it an adult mystery, because it`s not a thriller in the sense of that other way, but it is a mystery.

- Barbara Hershey

I loved that it was about human relationships and then it was a mystery without falling into the trap of a thriller per se, because it pulled you in through people rather than through events or effects.

- Barbara Hershey

is not your typical horror or slasher movie. It`s meant to be a thriller with an edge and a lesson to it.

- Jared Padalecki

It`s a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it`s a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you`re told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face.

- Kevin Spacey

One of my film heroes is Peter Weir, who made Fearless (1993) but also made Green Card (1990). Ang Lee makes a western, he makes a Seventies psycho movie, a costume drama and a monster movie. I wanted to be like that. I finished this in October and I haven`t worked since, because my wife (the actress Jennifer Connelly) had just had the baby and I wanted to be with them. But I`ve just taken on a film called Firewall (2006), which is a thriller with Harrison Ford. I`m doing it because I`ve never done a thriller before and I just get ... I just get bored if I don`t do different things.

- Paul Bettany

(March 2004) They`re too scared. They feel they have to top themselves in a genre which is just spectacle and a huge bang for your buck. But I think you can have your cake and eat it. You can have real character work, a character storyline and a thriller aspect and all kinds of quips, asides, the explosions and the women. We`re just saturated with too many overblown action films with no plot. That`s ludicrous. It`s so damn crazy! That`s absolutely sheer lunacy because "Casino Royale" is the blueprint of the Bond character. You find out more about James Bond in that book than in any of the other books. I would love to do a fifth Bond and then bow out, but if this last one is to be my last, then so be it. My contract is up. They can do it or not.

- Pierce Brosnan

On Thriller - en grym film (1974) and its influences on Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003): "And that is, of all the revenge movies I`ve ever seen, that is definitely the roughest. The roughest revenge movie ever made! There`s never been anything as tough as that movie."

- Quentin Tarantino

I want to try a lot of things that I haven`t tried. You know, I did a thriller (Red Eye (2005)) after this, because it was so different and it was a genre I hadn`t worked in yet. Then I did a beautiful family ensemble drama. And next? I don`t know. I might go off to do a small independent in New York. I`m not sure. The quality of material is important but, basically, I`m open to anything. I like to stay open to anything.

- Rachel McAdams

It is a political thriller. It`s very action packed and it`s very exciting, but at the same time it`s a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They`re not separate, they`re completely dependent on one another.

- Rachel Weisz

As Ralph`s character begins to discover the political thriller aspect of the film, he falls deeper in love with his wife, so the two run together. That`s the beauty of this film. It has fast pace and excitement, but it also has heart and soul.

- Rachel Weisz

I was in `Thriller,`

- Missy 'Misdemeanor' Elliott

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

- John McTiernan

The problem was, Lucas was going through a whole series of relationships with women because I had a feeling that women readers like to read about romantic involvements ... along with the thriller aspects of the books. (But) if you introduce a new female character in a series that`s lasted as long as this one, (Lucas) begins to sound more like a sexual predator than a guy who`s really genuinely involved with the people he`s dealing with. So I decided to tone down the romantic relationships between Lucas and other women, and have him focus on one woman.

- John Sandford

I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it`s very character driven.

- Emily Watson

Yes, to me that`s one of the most compelling fears in film noir and the psychological thriller genre - that fear of conspiracy. It`s definitely something that I have a fear of - not being in control of your own life. I think that`s something people can relate to, and those genres are most successful when they derive the material from genuine fears that people have.

- Christopher Nolan

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

- Ed Wood

Once that entered the piece, it ceased to be just a biographical look at a great world leader, and it became a thriller, ... It explores so many human questions about violence or peace, and what (New Yorker writer) Seymour Hersh calls `the Samson option,` because when Samson brought down the temple on the Philistines, he brought it down on himself -- it`s Israel`s feeling that if it goes down, it will not go down alone.

- Tovah Feldshuh

(Though a story about how terrorists manage to slip into the U.S. and carry out assaults might be the stuff of a typical Hollywood thriller, the wounds on the national psyche have been too painful for producers to touch.) It`s just been too sensitive, ... It`s a great story, but (the networks) were not sure how it could be handled in a proper manner.

- David Gerber

The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They`re the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They`re active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not.

- Thomas Perry

The Thriller album is still the biggest album of all time. That is still returning huge royalty cheques.

- Martin Bashir

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

- Scott Turow

It`s a dramatic thriller,

- Paul Rose

(Brannon Braga, co-creator and executive producer of CBS` upcoming SF suspense thriller, Threshold , told SCI FI Wire that the show will not be shy in explaining up front what its aliens are doing.) It`s bioforming, ... They`re sending out this bizarre technological signal that mutates our DNA, (turning us) into them. There are no aliens. They`re turning us into them.

- Andrew Wessels

How can the Jackets follow their opening thriller at Auburn by giving North Carolina even the hint of shocking Tech for the second consecutive season?

- Andy Serwin

I want to try a lot of things that I haven’t tried. You know, I did a thriller (Red Eye (2005)) after this, because it was so different and it was a genre I hadn’t worked in yet. Then I did a beautiful family ensemble drama. And next? I don’t know. I might go off to do a small independent in New York. I’m not sure. The quality of material is important but, basically, I’m open to anything. I like to stay open to anything.

- Rachel McAdams