Cory Michael Smith Quotes

True crime has always been popular.

I've been on this kick reading about the beginning of forensic science: autopsies, fingerprinting, psychological profiling. I've been reading a lot of books about forensic anthropology.

My novels are never directly based on a true crime incident, but I want to get the details right. I want to know how homicide detectives think, what a SWAT team might do to prepare.

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.

Everyone is doing forensics.

I followed him at the time and thought he was hysterical. He was the first serial killer, a new kettle of fish, because we didn't have the detection techniques in those days.

I love crime procedurals. I always have. I love cop shows.

I used to enjoy reading true crime, but I've discovered that I don't have the journalism nose for blood.

On television and in the movies, crimes are always solved. Nothing is left uncertain. By the end, the viewer knows whodunit. In real life, on the other hand, many murders remain unsolved, and even some that are 'solved' to the satisfaction of the police and prosecutors lack sufficient evidence to result in a conviction.

I'm a nut for these 'crime reality' shows. Things like 'Forensic Files,' 'Forensic Detectives.'

I'm definitely caught up in the Kool-Aid of true-crime stories.

I've always been a fan of investigation shows.

'Forensic Files' is big in our house.

I was always obsessed with crime, crime shows, anything to do with unsolved cold cases.

I was pretty serious about pursuing forensic science as a profession. In fact, I pursued an internship at the office of the chief medical examiner here in New York.

I am more into things like CSI, but then Glee started and I was like, "Oh this is different."

Many police departments still use DNA evidence the way they have used fingerprints and tire tracks: to determine whether a suspect committed the crime.

I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.

There's good money in true crime, I'm told, and plenty of it lying around, but it's a devil of an art form.

180 episodes of 'CSI: Miami' and never the same lipstick twice!

I wasn't a regular, avid 'Bones' fan, but I'd certainly seen it. I liked the banter; I liked the people and that world.

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

I'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop.

All work and no play make any forensic pathologist a dull boy.

It means working harder to do the research but I don't really mind - I don't think I have what it takes to chase criminals through back alleys and wade through blood at crime scenes.