Kristin Lehman Quotes

I love all kinds of movies. I'd especially like to make some, you know, violent crime drama.

Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course.

Part of the reason why Scandinavian crime has been so popular is the landscape. It is just so strong and alien. Although without taking anything away, you should probably also never discount the fact that blood does look particularly good against snow.

It is a strange thing that true crime has now got entertainment value. I don't know why people love shows about crime so much.

For something like 'Line of Duty' to work, it has to be both plausible and unexpected.

Hollywood is obsessed with police stories.

'Broadchurch' is very different, but it's equally as good as 'The Killing' - if not better.

I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about - police and criminals, the criminal justice system.

Everyone is doing forensics.

My manager sent me the first two scripts for 'True Detective,' and I just thought they were so interesting and that the world they were depicting was so titillating to me.

What crime writers are doing connects deeper into a cultural hunger. Crime is important. When you open up a book that has a body that's dead, that matters. It matters more than a certain level of suburban angst; it really does.

Maybe I'm a little biased, but shows like 'Dexter' and 'Southland,' I'm just enthralled by that sort of storytelling, kind of clever and patient.

I pitched the idea to FX that there's this larger 'Fargo' universe where there's true crime in the upper Midwest, and I can tell stories from any era of that. Maybe they connect to the first season or the movie, or maybe they don't. It's just a style of storytelling. We're under the auspices of being a true story that isn't true.

I'll tell you what I really enjoy. We all go to the movies, we all watch television, we know what they're about, how they work. When the main character is a cop or a spy, it's very exciting, but I also very much enjoy when the main characters are nobodies - a trucker.

We have the crime of the century every six months. So for people like me who enjoy, you know, taking these stories and writing about them, the material is endless.

Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.

I never thought that I would be so attracted to television, but I don't think gigs like 'Dexter' come along too often.

I love 'Game of Thrones' and 'Breaking Bad.'

Crime fiction is the new rock n' roll.

Kickback is a police thriller which I wrote. I'm very proud of it. I did it in two parts for France because when I wrote it, there wasn't the audience demand for crime stuff that there is now.

My stories are often a little mysterious.

I don't think I'd seen anything like 'The Killing.'

I'm so happy with 'The Blacklist.' Give me more people to shoot and throw them off buildings.

I think 'Rake' was a very clever crossover, actually, because it does lend itself to the city of L.A.

I'm into zombie movies like 'World War Z' and the shows 'Breaking Bad' and 'The Walking Dead.'