Machine Gun Kelly Quotes

I like movies that are scary, but I don't want them to be dirt dumb. I want a movie that gets my blood racing, makes me laugh, but also gives me something to think about, with maybe a little sexy thrown in. Hollywood doesn't make movies like that.

No, I did a film called 'Death and the Compass' as well.

I would much rather watch a horror film or science fiction than a comedy. I don't know why. I just like them. I find them relaxing.

I saw 'Alien' when I was 8 years old. To me, it was like a combination of Jaws and Star Wars, and that's the movie that made me want to be a director.

I enjoy watching movies that are high concept or science fiction or have supernatural elements, like '2:22' has.

What attracted me to 'The Maze Runner' is its pure action.

The stories I read or get attracted to have a kind of thrill element, or a crime.

I like a good old thriller.

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

I think, primarily, we love spy thrillers, and I think, instinctively, we love the tension that those thrillers can bring.

Mysteries and thrillers are not the same things, though they are literary siblings. Roughly put, I would say the distinction is that mysteries emphasize motive and psychology whereas thrillers rely more heavily on action and plot.

To me a great sci-fi movie has elements of horror and suspense.

Musicals and horror movies are my two favorite genres because they're about extremes.

The spy genre is something which, as a fan of movies, a movie geek myself, I just love that cinematic joy that they bring.

I've been in silly movies and romantic movies and historic movies.

I'd love to make a thriller.

I've never really been a genre fan. I never grew up reading comic books or was a horror buff.

I think the excitement of movies is discovering stuff you weren't expecting, and I hope to preserve that.

If I'm a genre writer, I'm at the edge. In the end, they do work like genre fiction. You have a hero, there's a love interest, there's always a chase, there's fighting of some kind. You don't have to do that in a novel. But you do in a genre novel.

I like movies in particular, on video or T.V. I have lots of old favorites, like Danny Kaye in 'The Court Jester' or 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' or James Stewart in 'Winchester '73.' But I also like a lot of modern films.

There's scary stuff in 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.' There's some really nasty skeletons and dead bodies.

You'll notice that my books offer great variety. Some are for adults, some for children and some for teens. There are mysteries, historical novels, picture books, love stories and stories of crisis and courage.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

'Homeland' is a thriller with a lot of cloak and dagger spy stuff, which is one of the things that makes it so much fun.

I would have loved to have been in a Hitchcock movie.