Timothy Hutton Quotes

The aggressive use of wiretaps is important: It shows that we are targeting white-collar insider-trading rings with the same powerful investigative tools that have worked so successfully against the mob and drug cartels.

It means working harder to do the research but I don't really mind - I don't think I have what it takes to chase criminals through back alleys and wade through blood at crime scenes.

My college senior thesis was going to be on the American private investigator.

We're going after the possibilities of tax fraud, insurance fraud, securities fraud. We're going to look at this stuff very closely. We have the jurisdiction, we have the resources, and we have the will.

'Forensic Files' is big in our house.

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.

The FBI has long been a part of the security for the nation's banks because bank robberies have been a priority.

I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.

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

Police forces collect information to be used in a public court to get people convicted. Security services gather information that does not necessarily lead to people being prosecuted and in many cases needs to remain confidential.

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

I rob banks for a living, what do you do?

I am one of the new characters in the brand new series of 'Postman Pat.' It has been a joy to do.

The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.

When I interviewed profilers in 1984 in the basement of the FBI Academy at Quantico, VA., there were just four of them - Roger Depue, John Douglas, Roy Hazelwood, and Robert Ressler.

My parents are private investigators for God's sake.

When I was growing up, my stepmother's sister was the chief detective in one of the adjoining towns, so she piqued my interest in crime.

Also the pictures themselves give a visual to the audience tuning in, that makes them a very important part of law enforcement, or pulling families together.

The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.

I have friends that tease me about 'Without a Trace;' they say, 'You're really good at saying, 'Have you seen this person?'

I've got to be careful what I say but Glenn Mulcaire was a blagger and a phone hacker.

That’s typically how the SEC does it. They come in after the crime has been committed they toe-tag the victims, count the bodies, and try to figure out who the crooks were after the fact—which does none of us any good.

Before 'Mindhunter,' I was doing this show called 'Looking' on HBO.

I love prosecuting cases, and I love doing investigations, particularly homicide investigations and the like, and that's why I became a prosecutor.

'Leverage' is meant to be based in Boston. But in one episode we're in New York, then another in Chicago, Florida, and Eastern Europe.