Thrillers Quotes

Allthough that doesn`t happen often lately, I like to read exciting thrillers and those kinky magazines.

I`m more into thrillers than horrors. I also have a thing for period pieces. Science fiction to me is also a period piece. It`s an imagined period.

Thrillers are an enormous amount of fun for filmmakers.

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

The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, you know, where you have an opportunity every day to shoot it in an unusual way. I was looking for something like that.

Plays that had been done in the West End were available for production purposes by repertory. They were mostly light comedies and a lot of thrillers.

(Mystery-thrillers are) difficult to write, number one, ... Getting all the details worked out brings the detective out in everyone.

I`ve been writing stories since I was a kid, and James and I had been talking about wanting to make a film for many years before this. Even though we wrote the film as a means to an end, so that James would have something to direct and I could have something to act in, it wasn`t a slough for me to get through it because I love writing. It took me a long time only because I felt like it was all or nothing, that this script had to be good enough to compete at a world level. We didn`t want it to be something that was something that was pretty good for a couple of guys from Melbourne. We wanted it to be a good film on a par with other independent films like Run, Lola, Run and Pi and Memento, these cool thrillers that had ticking-clock gimmicks to them. They`re the type of films we wanted to be up there with. (on `Saw`)