Mads Mikkelsen Quotes

I think suspense is a big thing.

To answer that I have to describe what I think is my responsibility as a thriller writer: To give my readers the most exciting roller coaster ride of a suspense story I can possibly think of.

A western audience might not appreciate 'Chanakya's Chant' because of its dependence on history and ancient statecraft. My book is a modern-day thriller that draws on a bedrock of history. My primary object is to entertain, not educate.

Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens.

With 'House of Cards,' you really get the heart and the meat of drama - and it's a thriller!

There is nothing better than a really cool mystery: you don't know what's going to happen, so you keep turning those pages or watching that series.

I like scary movies. I like the mystery that leaves you wanting to watch the next one.

I like a good suspense thriller when it's smart and well done like 'Armed Response' is.

I grew up on courtroom dramas, and I really love the feel of a dramatic thriller.

I got sent the script [ Before I Go To Sleep] as usually happens and you have a little look. I know it's a bit of a cliché, but it was absolutely a page turner. I mean, I wanted to find out what happened next.

I'm not against people just being funny or telling stories. I don't need to delve into the soft, dark core all the time. If it happens, it happens.

I'm a fan of horror movies that have really good stories.

People don't care how you feel. You need to paint pictures, you need to tell stories. That's what people want. They want to be entertained. Then all of the other stuff kind of filters across as part of the whole thing.

No Time For Goodbye is a deliciously smart thriller, full of surprises and perfect pacing. I'm jealous I didn't write it.

William Goldman's Marathon Man was a novel that taught me about suspense. I was maybe 16 years old when I read it and I remember thinking, "You could put a gun to my head and I wouldn't put this book down." I loved that feeling - and want to give it others.

I feel very secure about the role of the actor in the future. They need us, because stories are about people.

People love that kind of beginning, middle, and end. They like that comfort of turning on the TV week-to-week and being entertained with a good story. There's nothing wrong with TV franchises because, first of all, they're successful. They just make people feel good and hopefully make people think about other people.

We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.

Has all the trappings of a mystery novel, doesn't it?

I don't know where the characters are going to go or what's going to happen. I know that something inevitable will happen. I know that they want certain things and they're in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that. More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens. I don't know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady's, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts. If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I'd have someone enter with a machine gun.

I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.

And that's the way of a real tale. Take any one that you're fond of. You may know, or guess, what kind of a tale it is, happy-ending or sad-ending, but the people in it don't know. And you don't want them to.

People need to understand that hip-hop that has gun talk is just for entertainment; similar to if you were watching a movie.

My belief is guns don't kill people, people kill people.

There is much to admire in Peter Brett's writing, and his concept is brilliant. There's action and suspense all the way.