Lori Foster Quotes

I love action films. I don't really like drama.

I love thrillers, and I always have.

I love caper films.

'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.

There's a reason there are 50,000 cop shows and firefighter shows: Watching them is cool.

I love the spy genre.

The best movies now are called 'thrillers.' Because if you use the word 'horror,' people's associations are straight-to-video crap.

The spy genre is something which, as a fan of movies, a movie geek myself, I just love that cinematic joy that they bring.

It seemed to me... that the only valid people to deal with crime were cops, and I would like to make the lead character, rather than a single person, a squad of cops.

I watched Someone to Watch Over Me the other night. I thought it was a really good movie. It's a great movie.

I love cop shows and crime books and thrillers, and before I die I'm gonna play a cop.

I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot.

I'd love to do 'The Expendables.' It's just a kick in the pants.

When I was growing up and watching 'The Sweeney,' the notion of police officers being an inch away from the villains that they're chasing was commonplace.

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

I think what makes 'Maze Runner' so unique is that it is a brotherhood. It's really about a group of boys. It's not really a love story - there's no love triangle, none of that. It's mostly about a brotherhood of boys who really don't know what's going on.

I think what we've been able to do with 'Longmire' is balance this procedural with a bit of a soap opera, and it's a character study of this character, Walt Longmire, and the people around him.

I always think it's absurd when people go, 'How can you have a show about Batman without Batman?' 'Gotham' is plenty fascinating, 'Chinatown' style.

I love 'Lost' and 'Mission: Impossible III.'

We watched a show called 'Outer Banks' which was really good.

Who would ever have thought that Robert Ludlum would have become the father of modern action cinema?

As a filmmaker, I tilt towards stories which are crime-led.

I'd love to branch out but I have absolutely no interest in romance. I just don't. The thought of trying to write a rom-com ... it just completely skeeves me out. No!

In movies you get to do that. Sometimes with the vigilante justice movie he has to also tangle with police, which are traditional or security people. Is there going to be any of that in this?

My heroes were people like Arnold Schwarzenegger.