Nathan Fillion Quotes

A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.

Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just after. But they can never remember the actual moment of killing. This is why they will always leave a clue.

I believe the question now is: who murdered my mother?

Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.

I think like a detective.

One evening, after my wife and son had gone out for a walk, I decided to have a talk with my neighbor, who I believe was murdered. I had gotten to know and admire him by listening to people talk about him. He seemed a wonderful person with much to give.

I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.

In the same way he's fascinated by crosswords, the puzzle of solving the murder is what drives him on.

Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.

I often keep my eyes open for bodies. I do. Ever since I was a kid. I think I read too many 'Nancy Drew' books.

Forensics I've always found absolutely fascinating. Anything to do with clues. And checking things out and solving.

Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people... have to walk out of the shadows.

In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.

'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'

I think, very often, we're addicted to procedurals, those good guy/bad guy shows, and the 'problem' with procedurals is they all follow the same formula: The bad guy does his thing, the good guy goes after him, and in most cases, the good guy figures out who did it and catches him.

I'm Marie Lightfoot, or at least that's the name my publisher puts on the covers of the books I write about true crime. In classic 'true crime' fashion, my latest one is titled 'Anything to Be Together.'

I've always been interested in forensics and the way they solve things.

Catching a culprit becomes really easy when there are video footages from the crime scene.

I am a fan of crime investigative series.

I don't know if you know it, J.B., but you're the sort of fellow who causes hundreds to fall under suspicion when he's found stabbed in his library with a paper-knife of Oriental design.

What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean.

Murder had a blood red door on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone.

Mysteries include so many things: the noir novel, espionage novel, private eye novels, thrillers, police procedurals. But the pure detective story is where there's a detective and a criminal who's committed a murder and leaves clues for the detective and the careful reader to find.

I like to consider myself a detective, which is how I justify my obsession with my phone. By nature, since I was a kid, I've always wanted to be a detective, and any portal to information and investigating things I have ever been given access to, I have dived into. With my phone, unfortunately, I have immediate access to everything.

If you're reading a mystery novel, you kind of want the character to solve the crime instead of completely bumble their way through it.