Bill James Quotes

Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.

The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.

It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?

I'm asked unendingly to become involved in series involving true crime and as it so happens the Netflix series that I'm working on is about a true crime.

I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.

Targets don't fight crime.

I'm interested in people who are very close to the people who commit crimes.

A working detective has no hope of understanding what even experts who devote their lives to the study of criminal psychology can't figure out.

Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime.

Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.

Crime is a job and it's boring. It's also unpleasant.

We can't get at crime unless we know what language it speaks. Otherwise, we are just suppressing the cough, not curing the disease.

I love cops; I'm fascinated by the criminal justice system.

My approach to the story... is if you can get into a criminal's mind and understand how it works and understand how crime is committed, you can help prevent it from happening to someone else.

Like so many other bored teens, I was a bored teen with a hobby. The only difference was mine was obsessing about crime.

As a filmmaker, I tilt towards stories which are crime-led.

Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel.

He kissed her and killed her then dumped her body in the river.

For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals.

Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.

Basically, "Making a Murderer" chronicles a set of crimes committed in Wisconsin: Manitowoc, Wisconsin. The first crime is a miscarriage of justice. Steven Avery is convicted and sentenced to a very, very long prison sentence for the assault on a woman. And it comes to light through DNA evidence that he was not the assailant.

Most crimes are sanctioned in some form or other when they take grand names.

Everyone of us is a potential convict.

I really enjoyed doing that [Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2004) - "Graham Barnes"]. I got to work with Margaret Colin, who was a blast to work with, and a wonderful actress, and Taylor Roberts. She was fantastic. And getting to work with Vincent D'Onofrio, who's amazing. But I loved the characters of the parents, these sick psychiatrists.

The true criminal must be defined as a man who commits a crime though he is as decently fed and clothed as others.