Brent Spiner Quotes

I loved doing 'Dead Like Me.' That role was phenomenal to me.

'Fargo' becomes a metaphor for a type of true crime case where truth is stranger than fiction. So, there's no reason that there isn't another 10-hour true crime story that could be told in this region.

I have always been a big fan of the BBC program 'Luther' with Idris Elba.

All societies have these cases. There are many, many crime cases that remain famous from the times of the Romans. The Bible is full of crime stories. You can almost flip to a page. Joseph being sold into slavery by his brothers is a crime story. The Bible is full of crime stories.

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?

The crime film is the most honest American film.

When 'Breaking Bad' was on, I would have loved to have been a part of that.

I've been watching detective shows, like 'Wallander' and the Danish 'The Killing.' I'm like, 'That would be kind of fun to do.'

I did a film a couple years ago called 'Who Is Clark Rockefeller?' It was a role that I was really proud of that I wish more people could go back and rediscover.

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

I always wanted to have 'Bad Boys' on TV. 'Common Law' is reminiscent of my youth.

I don't have any favorite episodes from 'Joanie Loves Chachi.' I liked working with the people. But I didn't even want to do it. I was talked into it.

I did an episode of 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' with Jeff Goldblum, which was fun because I've known him for years.

I've been watching 'Luther' since the beginning. My family adore it, too, so it was like a passion project for me.

It was such a joy to be an actor on 'The Wire.'

'Forensic Files' is big in our house.

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

It's not terrifying to watch 'Mindhunter,' necessarily, but it's just unsettling. You can find Aileen Wuornos just talking to a camera. It's hard to watch. Her eyeballs, they are just terrifying.

I've been saying for about 20 years, 'When am I going to get my cop show?'

It's been good and a nice chance to work with some great actors and actresses - Natalie Anderson, Jeff Hordley, Emma Atkins, Charley Webb and Dominic Power.

Well, I did two lines on a TV show called 'Cleopatra 2525' really badly with an American accent; it was terrible!

I am a fan of crime investigative series.

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.

Sometimes I'm like, Wow, 'Criminal Minds' is deep.