Octavia Spencer Quotes

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

I watch a lot of true crime on TV.

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.

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

I'd love to do a Columbo-type detective character in a series.

You can't beat a cop drama. That's what everybody seems to want to watch.

If Sherlock Holmes can survive the Reichenbach Falls, then surely we have not seen the last of Detective Sergeant John Munch.

I've always been a fan of investigation shows.

I love crime series.

I am really into crime documentaries.

I've read about eight or ten of the original novels, and one of them is where Maigret's in bed for the entire story! His wife is running around and solving the case!

'Dragnet' (the 1951 original, transferred nearly intact from radio) served as a veritable template for all cop shows to come.

I had a publishing history of murder mysteries.

On 'CSI: NY,' the audience knew I was a really good guy, and I caught the bad guy.

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

I love cop shows and crime books and thrillers, and before I die I'm gonna play a cop.

It's no secret - I love detective fiction. One of the reasons I love being in London is because I like to watch all the shows on TV. I watch them all. I like 'Detective Frost.'

Believe me, although I really like the show, the reality of Philly Homicide is nothing like CBS's 'Cold Case.'

For me the Anita series is built like a mystery series, which means that as much as possible each book stands alone, so you have a mystery to solve from the beginning to the end of the book.

Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.

I was very influenced by films and books like 'Serpico,' 'The French Connection,' and 'Prince of the City.' They were some of the reasons I became a crime writer.

I wrote 'Knots and Crosses,' the first of the Rebus books, not even realising that I was writing crime fiction.

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

Along came a police lieutenant named Columbo, and my life would never be the same.

I think, very often, we're addicted to procedurals, those good guy/bad guy shows, and the 'problem' with procedurals is they all follow the same formula: The bad guy does his thing, the good guy goes after him, and in most cases, the good guy figures out who did it and catches him.