Val Kilmer Quotes

Crimes spring from fixed ideas.

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.

Crime is a job and it's boring. It's also unpleasant.

My approach to the story... is if you can get into a criminal's mind and understand how it works and understand how crime is committed, you can help prevent it from happening to someone else.

I love the idea of getting into the mind of the criminal.

Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.

The true criminal must be defined as a man who commits a crime though he is as decently fed and clothed as others.

I don't know that I am fascinated with crime. I'm fascinated with people and their characters and their obsessions and what they do. And these things lead to crime, but I'm much more fascinated in their minds.

I read a lot about serial killers.

Criminals interest me, because they're driven by the same desires as we are, but they take these disastrous shortcuts and end up in a real mess.

National criminal behavior is always defined by the perpetrator’s compulsion to forgetting. Secrecy and silence are the first line of defense. If that fails, the perpetrator’s attacks on the credibility of the victims.

All societies have these cases. There are many, many crime cases that remain famous from the times of the Romans. The Bible is full of crime stories. You can almost flip to a page. Joseph being sold into slavery by his brothers is a crime story. The Bible is full of crime stories.

It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?

Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength.

The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.

I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.

Since 1966, hundreds of books have been published that follow murderers along their paths of destruction. Every serial killer, it seems, now has a biographer or two.

Many criminals believe what they say is true; they could pass a lie detector test.

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.

Even academic elites are drawn to the figure of the murderer, which has long been a focus of attention for psychiatrists, sociologists, and criminologists.

The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.

In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.

Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime.