"Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers."

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"Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers."

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"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor."

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"Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero."

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"I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work."

Walter Hill, American Director

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"I suppose we all loved those kind of sci-fi movies where terrible things came out of swamps and came to Mars. And there's usually some poor girl. All the guys are trying to desperately handle levers and saying, go to something or other."

Neil Innes, British Writer

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"So, you need to balance it out with bigger and smaller movies."

Ray Liotta, American Actor

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"I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms."

Sarah Vowell, American Author

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"Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that."

Aaron Eckhart, American Actor

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"Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically."

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"That's the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That's one thing that's so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years."

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

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"The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying."

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"An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit."

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"For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words."

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"I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have."

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