David Harewood Quotes

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

I watch a lot of true crime on TV.

'Forensic Files' is big in our house.

'Forensic Files' is amazing! I love it! There were marathons happening all the time in college. That show, because it's always on at night, was always better than any scary movie I could put on, because it was 'real.'

I will live in TV Land watching 'Columbo.' I also like my 'Forensic Files,' all of that true crime.

I was always obsessed with crime, crime shows, anything to do with unsolved cold cases.

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.

I'm asked unendingly to become involved in series involving true crime and as it so happens the Netflix series that I'm working on is about a true crime.

Many police departments still use DNA evidence the way they have used fingerprints and tire tracks: to determine whether a suspect committed the crime.

Pauley Perrette: I was a criminal science fanatic and went to study it in college as well and I think that helped me on NCIS because I was comfortable with the language, I had studied criminal science in school for years.

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 interested in people who are very close to the people who commit crimes.

A working detective has no hope of understanding what even experts who devote their lives to the study of criminal psychology can't figure out.

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

I used to enjoy reading true crime, but I've discovered that I don't have the journalism nose for blood.

Forensics I've always found absolutely fascinating. Anything to do with clues. And checking things out and solving.

I read extensively about serial killers and all sorts of things people get up to.

Some of the best movies made about crime are those where the crime solver can get inside the head of the serial killer, and those are the techniques we use in C.S.I.

Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.

When 'The Washington Post' ran the first national story about FBI profiling in 1984, no one outside of law enforcement recognized the term.

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

I actually wanted to be a forensic scientist for a while. When I was doing my Standard Grades, three of them were science subjects. The interest in science didn't wear off, but I found other interests.

If I see one more forensics show, I'm gonna throw up.

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

I've always been interested in forensics and the way they solve things.