Gautam Rode Quotes

I enjoy the TV series 'Dexter,' where there's a reason for every kill. Quentin Tarantino is a favourite, and a 'Kill Bill' action-packed movie would be up my street. I'd love to be India's first scream queen!

So, yes, 'Codename Baboushka' is all-action and over-the-top, at least by my standards. But it also has a complex, multifaceted protagonist, a deep mystery at its core, and a kind of humanity that, through all the bullets and high-kicks, is really the soul of the book.

I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.

Look realistically at espionage thrillers again. They're not only alive, readers are excited about them.

When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.

I've always had a great affection for espionage stories. I like weaving them, and I like thrillers.

I think 'Red Band Society' is unique because not only is it focusing on a pediatric ward, but it's from the view from the patient, not from the view of the doctors. So we're getting to see a whole other side of hospitals and medical series life that we haven't been able to see before.

To all my soap fans out there, my horror fanatics, comedy lovers, I will tell you this: 'Death Valley' is an action-packed drama, comedic, horror TV series that has a non-stop adventure in each episode. It's like a huge pot of Texas gumbo. If you like all four of those genres, then you'll love this show.

The marvelous thing about 'Doctor Who' is that it tells stories that no one else can tell.

You do have to wonder how Jack Bauer, maverick hero of '24,' can stay hidden for so long when no matter where he goes, he always seems within range of a TV camera. Or six.

'Jack Ryan' is a very fast-paced, very contemporary, very action-driven thriller.

But there are still good shows like 24, Boomtown and the Wire, the Shield.

Le Carre's voice - patrician, cold, brilliant and amused - was perfect for the wilderness-of-mirrors undertow of the Cold War, and George Smiley is the all-time harassed bureaucrat of spy fiction.

I want to be like Matt Damon and do a hugely successful thinking-man's action franchise like 'Bourne.'

'North by Northwest' was a big influence for 'The Bourne Identity.'

I think 'The Leftovers' is one of the most extraordinary shows that has ever seen the light of day.

My preferred genre of reading is crime thrillers - books by Harlan Coben, Jo Nesbo, David Baldacci, James Patterson, Ashwin Sanghi and a few others - and I write crime thrillers.

I thought I was going to make bigger films for mass audiences. And I wanted that. I actually had in mind a James-Bondian thriller.

'Spooks' was very much of its time and rather unique, so I was more than happy to be in that as a long-runner - because I think we won't have that sort of show again. I think it was really, really unusual.

'Tenali Rama' is one of the most popular shows on Indian Television and it feels great working in the show.

I love to watch Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai.' The comic timing of the actors is amazing. It makes me laugh endlessly sitting on my sofa.

I loved the Yashraj shows 'Powder' and 'Shaadi.com.'

'Jane the Virgin' is one of the most original shows that's been presented in the United States.

I went to Target once and picked up three seasons of '24' - what I call the Jack Bauer power hour - and watched 72 episodes in ten days.

Some of my favourite shows are 'Black Mirror,' a dystopian thriller show called '3%,' 'Ozark,' 'Tyrant,' etc.