"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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"And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment."

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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."

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"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

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"The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies."

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"I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience."

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"For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English."

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"Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume."

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"I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism."

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"I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film."

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"Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative."

Woman

"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."

Writing

"I use a professional researcher in New York who does all the legwork, all that stuff which would take me days and weeks of calling, waiting for people to call back."

People

"We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary."

Now

"James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond."

Food

"There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era."

War

"In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation."

Change

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

Writing

"I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult."

Woman