Julia Sawalha Quotes

When I think of Sherlock Holmes, I think of a guy who can wander into the confusion of life and sort of pluck out answers at will.

When I was a kid, what captivated me about detective fiction were the puzzles more than the detectives or their enemies. And as I've gotten older, I see a lot of merit in setting your investigative sights higher than figuring out how someone stole Encyclopedia Brown's bicycle.

People love a good mystery; I understand that.

I think like a detective.

People want to be entertained when they watch dramas. 'Mistresses' has a mixture of escapism and reality.

I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.

I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.

I love action movies.

Ultimately, a great thriller is a roller coaster ride. I like to think that's a promise I have never failed to keep, and one that I'd say has served my books well.

I saw Redeye, and I love being scared and on the edge of my seat.

I'd love to make a thriller.

I personally love a cliffhanger - I think it just extends the pleasure of viewing.

I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose.

While 'Visitation Street' has the markings of a traditional whodunnit mystery - starting with a missing girl, intrigue and many suspicious characters - Pochoda shows her hand early on by fingering a culprit. The book turns, then, into a 'whydunnit.'

The hunger for knowing is what excites me. I get to geek out about editing, be on set, give notes to writers - I love it all.

If what you know and what you love are the same thing, that's great. But if not, write what you love. I love history, secrets, conspiracies, action, adventure, international settings.

The thing I loved about Alfred Hitchcock is that he left a lot of open ends there, a lot of clues that didn't really add up the way you think they would, and sometimes, not at all.

Even though I don't necessarily believe in everything that's supernatural, I like being scared and I like things that are suspenseful.

People are attracted to entertainment, for sure, or jokes, excitement and romantically heightened stories that might be false, but are still attractive fantasies.

One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they are really looking for is justice.

If you can actually get someone to sit on the edge of their seat and feel nervous if there's a knock at the door, then you've done something pretty terrific as a writer.

I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.

I think that in order for anything to work on television, you have to have conflict. Nothing can be too happy or it's boring. People don't want to watch that - they want to watch things that are exciting and dangerous and sexy and have tension.

I love solving puzzles, I love finding my way around obstacles, and I love learning new things about technology.

I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more up-front.