Documentarian Laura Poitras has crafted a first-rate Hitchcockian-type thriller telling the story of Edward Snowden.
I'd been a thriller reader all my life.
Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.
The thriller genre in general, it's total foreign ground for me.
I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.
For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.
I think it was the sense that Turn is a spy thriller, and that's a genre that really fascinates me, in general.
Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller.
John Wick is a rousing action thriller of the sort rarely encountered in theaters these days.
I'm a fan of the European style, naturalistic thriller.
As long as thriller authors teach us about our world, they'll be relevant.
At their best, thrillers not only entertain. Ideally they also reflect the society in which they are set, analyzing our fears and how we perceive the world.
A thriller becomes great when it carries a feeling of reality and truth.
The worst situation you can have in a thriller is a lead who looks like he can handle himself.
Thrillers are my favorite. I like stuff that keeps you on the edge of your seat or maybe makes you jump.
This is not an international thriller so much as a fiercely literate attempt to subvert the thriller genre itself.
It's the doubt that is really a major ingredient of the paranoid thriller.
I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.
The situation that women were in, at the time, was something that Dumas doesn't really go into, but it's a great subject to look at. It's a great genre because you can do a lot. Sometimes in thrillers, you can really explore things, and it's the same in this genre.