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For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all captivated me by providing glimpses into realms about which I knew very little - medical science, submarine technology and the law.
Dan Brown
Good
Me
Technology
Science
World
Law
Hunt
Must
About
Something
Thriller
Thrillers
Firm
Knew
Red
Like
Real
October
Providing
Submarine
Very
The Real World
Real World
Which
Little
Teach
Captivated
Medical
Ultimately, a great thriller is a roller coaster ride. I like to think that's a promise I have never failed to keep, and one that I'd say has served my books well.
James Patterson
Great
Ride
Roller Coaster
Think
Books
Say
Promise
Thriller
Never
Failed
Like
Well
Ultimately
Roller
Roller Coaster Ride
Coaster
Keep
Served
To answer that I have to describe what I think is my responsibility as a thriller writer: To give my readers the most exciting roller coaster ride of a suspense story I can possibly think of.
Jeffery Deaver
Ride
Responsibility
Roller Coaster
Think
Possibly
Give
Thriller
Writer
Exciting
Most
Readers
Answer
Roller
Roller Coaster Ride
Suspense
Story
Coaster
Describe
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
Good
You
Signs
Good Person
Active
Virtues
Characters
Thriller
Unsavory
Most
Make
Refer
Person
Common
Predatory
Useful
Who
Novel
'Homeland' is a thriller with a lot of cloak and dagger spy stuff, which is one of the things that makes it so much fun.
Adam Rayner
One Of The Things
Thriller
Stuff
Makes
Lot
Cloak
Spy
So Much Fun
Which
Much
Fun
Homeland
Dagger
Things
The dedication of Don Winslow's novel 'The Cartel' is nearly two pages long: a list of journalists who were either murdered or 'disappeared' in Mexico between 2004 and 2012 - the period covered in this hugely hypnotic new thriller.
Alan Cheuse
Long
Dedication
Thriller
Hypnotic
Disappeared
Between
Journalists
New
Period
Were
Covered
Mexico
Hugely
List
Either
Pages
Who
Novel
Nearly
Two
I'm not interested in parts where they are looking for a good-looking guy. I want to be a weird little sidekick in a crazy comedy and then play like a dark drama or a thriller.
Alexander Skarsgard
Crazy
Dark
Comedy
Looking
Drama
Sidekick
Guy
Thriller
Weird
Good-Looking
Like
Parts
Where
Want
Not Interested
Interested
Little
Then
Play
I have a couple of thick files about things that have gone wrong between people; I ought to write about them in the manner of a thriller. It would finally convince me that I was a real writer.
Amitava Kumar
Me
People
Gone
Ought
Finally
Would
About
Thriller
Write
Writer
Wrong
Between
Couple
Real
Them
Manner
Convince
Files
Thick
Things
In general, just as a framing, we always thought about 'Winter Soldier' very specifically as a political thriller.
Anthony Russo
Winter
Political
Thought
Framing
Soldier
About
General
Thriller
Always
Very
Just
Specifically
'Codename Baboushka' is an action-packed modern pulp spy thriller, in the sort of British tradition of 'Modesty Blaise', New Avengers and of course James Bond. It's a book about Contessa Annika Malikova, the last of a noble Russian line and an enigmatic, mysterious figure in New York high society.
Antony Johnston
Book
Society
High
About
Russian
Thriller
Mysterious
Noble
New
Sort
Course
Tradition
Line
Spy
York
Modern
New York
James
James Bond
Avengers
Modesty
Figure
Enigmatic
Bond
Last
British
Pulp
'Hereditary' is unabashedly a horror film, whereas 'It Comes at Night' was a lot of things: it was a thriller; it was a postapocalyptic drama. It was a slow-building, very dark movie about relationships. 'Hereditary' is also about relationships, and I hope it functions as a vivid family drama, but it is also very much a horror film.
Ari Aster
Hope
Family
Dark
Drama
Relationships
Unabashedly
Vivid
About
Horror
Horror Film
Thriller
Also
Lot
Very
Movie
Whereas
Much
Functions
Film
Things
Hereditary
Night
The first thriller ever? It was probably one from 1697. It was called 'Little Red Riding Hood.'
Ashwin Sanghi
First
Hood
Thriller
Red
Little
Riding
Ever
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
You
People
Events
Relationships
Per
About
Rather
Thriller
Mystery
Through
Because
Without
Falling
Effects
Than
Human
Loved
Then
Trap
Human Relationships
Pulled
I always wanted to write a book. Not a romance novel. Maybe a crime thriller. Something with action. Maybe that will happen some day.
Becky Sauerbrunn
Day
Book
Crime
Will
Action
Some
Something
Thriller
Write
Always
Maybe
Romance
Wanted
Happen
Novel
I'm extremely excited about working with Troika on 'The Hive.' This script has two elements I always look for in a thriller - strong, believable female characters and a smart, very dark and very creepy story that will definitely resonate with large audiences.
Brad Anderson
Strong
Dark
Smart
Resonate
Will
Extremely
Definitely
Characters
About
Thriller
Excited
Look
Female
Always
Female Characters
Audiences
Very
Hive
Story
Script
Working
Large
Believable
Elements
Two
Creepy
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.
Brad Thor
Best
Home
Entertainment
Business
Ride
Job
First
Once
Entertainment Business
Give
Thrill
Thriller
Supposed
Also
Readers
Because
Terrifying
Am
Doing
Foremost
Close
Author
Hits
Suspenseful
Again
Capable
Then
Really
My hero is Michael Jackson. Was and continues to be. He's amazing. When I was growing up, it was the time of 'Thriller' and 'Bad.' I'd come home from school and put on the vinyls. I'd put on a white V-neck T-shirt and roll back the carpet and dance for hours. I'd moonwalk and do the spins.
Brandon Victor Dixon
Time
Home
School
Amazing
Hero
Dance
White
Back
Carpet
Bad
Thriller
He
Put
Come
Hours
Up
Michael
Michael Jackson
Roll
Jackson
Growing
Growing Up
What was always interesting about Thomas Harris' books is they were a wonderful hybridization of a crime thriller and a horror movie.
Bryan Fuller
Wonderful
Crime
Thomas
Books
Harris
About
Horror
Horror Movie
Thriller
Always
Were
Movie
Interesting
I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.
Carlton Cuse
Time
Director
Owes
Think
Ways
Favorite
Kind
Unparalleled
All-Time
Window
More
Thriller
Almost
Feel
Like
Sort
Command
His
Than
North
Hitchcock
List
Northwest
Just
Psycho
Anyone
Movies
Certain
Rope
Rear
I don't think of myself as a mystery or thriller writer, honestly. I am in awe of mystery writers and don't think I have what it takes to write such a book.
Celeste Ng
Myself
Book
Think
Honestly
Thriller
Mystery
Write
Writer
Writers
Takes
Am
Awe
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.
Chevy Stevens
Me
Women
Writing
Thought
First
Out
Boring
More
Thriller
Had
Written
Taking
Missing
Parts
Still
Years
Fiction
Informed
Realize
Agent
Then
Many
Actually
Started
Kept
What you don't see is scarier than what you do. Categorization is always kind of arbitrary, but people have called 'Preservation' a 'psychological thriller.' To me, psychological thriller basically means 'a horror movie without the blood.'
Christopher Denham
Me
You
People
Kind
Arbitrary
See
Horror
Horror Movie
Thriller
Without
Always
Blood
Than
Movie
Psychological
Means
Basically
Preservation
'Intelligent Life' is kind of a companion piece to 'Safety Not Guaranteed.' Internally, it's a sci-fi romantic thriller.
Colin Trevorrow
Life
Safety
Kind
Thriller
Piece
Sci-Fi
Intelligent
Intelligent Life
Romantic
Companion
Guaranteed
I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.
Dallas Roberts
Me
Waiting
Too Much
Too
Kid
Find
More
Thriller
Tend
Stuff
Since
Dead
Sort
Terror
Go
Been
Walker
Walking
Frighten
Walking Dead
Gets
Going
Fan
Much
Aspects
Compelling
Necessarily
The worst situation you can have in a thriller is a lead who looks like he can handle himself.
Daniel Craig
You
Situation
Worst
Thriller
Lead
He
Like
Looks
Himself
Handle
Who
I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and not with a gun or by being an action hero.
Danny Strong
Love
Hero
Gun
Action
Able
Thriller
Idea
His
Get
Just
Being
Movie
Who
Action Hero
Brilliance
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