Evan Peters Quotes

Who do I think Jack The Ripper was? Do you know, I've got no idea who Jack The Ripper was. No idea.

I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history.

I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories.

Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.

I did a film about the Zodiac Killer. It turned out well.

I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder, kidnapping, depravity, horror, violence, and disfigurement.

People do sometimes ask me some really idiotic questions: 'Is your husband afraid of you putting arsenic in his food?' I replied that I have never written a book about poison, ever.

Very well, then. Having been asked by you, Your Honour, to give a clear answer here, I must state that I consider this murder, this extermination of the Jews, to be one of the most heinous crimes in the history of mankind

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

I read a lot of true crime growing up - 'The Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy.

A lot of the stories I write about have an element of mystery. They're crime stories or conspiracy stories or quests. They do have built into them revelations and twists. But the revelations, to me, come from seeing history as it's unfolding, or life as it's unfolding.

I've read a thousand private-eye novels.

I like mysteries.

I like a good old thriller.

A thriller needs to hold the interest of the reader from the very beginning. It needs to engage with them, hold them in rapt attention, and prevent them from putting down the book.

I've done a lot of genre movies.

Karina Longworth, the genius behind 'You Must Remember This', has quite correctly spun off her series about the Sharon Tate murders as a separate podcast called 'You Must Remember Manson' to mark the passing of the man who unleashed hell because he couldn't get a recording contract.

I lived around the man who was the model for Buffalo Bill in the movie 'Silence of the Lambs.'

My focus will always be crime, but it might not always be fiction, nor always for adults, nor books entirely in prose. That's a lot of ground to cover, so I might as well begin.

I take very seriously that challenge of trying to do genre films - but elevated genre films.

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

I love crime, I love sci-fi and many other things.

Bluebeard, who said to Scottland Yard, How do I know how many wives I've killed? I'm not an accountant! Never got a dinner!

Besides, who wants to read about success, anyway? Successful serial murderers, maybe.

If I'm not a murderer," asked Corny, "how come I keep killing people?