Cameron Britton Quotes

I've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that.

Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you.

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

Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.

These scenes deal with what happened before Hannibal Lecter was captured for the first time.

I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it's very character driven.

I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder, kidnapping, depravity, horror, violence, and disfigurement.

It is a strange thing that true crime has now got entertainment value. I don't know why people love shows about crime so much.

I lived around the man who was the model for Buffalo Bill in the movie 'Silence of the Lambs.'

I'm not one of these guys who sits around saying, 'Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that's why he's doing this horrible thing. Poor Jeffrey Dahmer. He's just had a bad childhood and that's why he's eating people.' Wait a second! This person should be removed from the planet.

I was obsessed with Val McDermid's Tony Hill and Carol Jordan books, delightfully twisted stuff.

My first book was called 'Buried Dreams,' about a serial-killer, which was probably about ten years ahead of the serial-killer curve. It was a national bestseller, but it was three years of living in the sewer of this guy's mind.

I studied a truckload of true crime, praying for illumination, but most true crime relies on luridness and voyeurism for effect.

The only thing I find difficult to watch - horror movies - not that I don't like them. Like 'The Shining,' it's one of my favorite movies, but it's terrifying. I feel like I've watched a marathon afterwards.

I've seen 'Silence of the Lambs,' like, fifty or sixty times. That's my favorite movie of all time.

I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.

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.

We assume people we know can't be serial killers.

I read a lot about serial killers.

The one noticeable similarity with almost all serial killer victims is their short height and low weight.

'Silence Of The Lambs' was not something people expected me to do.

'Fargo' becomes a metaphor for a type of true crime case where truth is stranger than fiction. So, there's no reason that there isn't another 10-hour true crime story that could be told in this region.

I've met serial killers and professional assassins and nobody scared me as much

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

I pretty much know everything there is to know about Dahmer.