Olivia d'Abo Quotes

If you're going to write thrillers, you have to make a decision if you are going to be realistic or go off and over.

I'm big on having a blistering pace. That's one of the hallmarks of what I do, and that's not easy. I never blow up cars and things like that, so it's something else that keeps the suspense flowing. I try not to write a chapter that isn't going to turn on the movie projector in your head.

The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure.

For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.

Suspense is a real tough beast in terms of the filmmaking.

I love thrillers - 'Dead Calm' is one of my favourite movies of all time.

For thrillers, it's especially difficult to carve out a good trailer.

My favorite types of movies to watch as a viewer are thrillers - I really have a soft spot for them, I love them. Especially psychological thrillers.

I think suspense is a big thing.

Thrillers are an enormous amount of fun for filmmakers.

The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling.

In TV, you always feel you are standing on the tracks of an oncoming train.

I read a lot of thrillers because they're easy reading and I'm not a great flier. They take my head out of it. I like the fast pace and that you can't put them down.

If you can actually get someone to sit on the edge of their seat and feel nervous if there's a knock at the door, then you've done something pretty terrific as a writer.

I like thrillers. My style of movies are closer to thrillers.

I define a thriller as a big-stakes, multiple-viewpoint novel involving suspense, action, and mystery, in which the reader doesn't know everything but usually knows more than any single character.

If you're writing a thriller, mystery, Western or adventure-driven book, you'd better keep things moving rapidly for the reader. Quick pacing is vital in certain genres. It hooks readers, creates tension, deepens the drama, and speeds things along.

Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.

To answer that I have to describe what I think is my responsibility as a thriller writer: To give my readers the most exciting roller coaster ride of a suspense story I can possibly think of.

Ultimately, a great thriller is a roller coaster ride. I like to think that's a promise I have never failed to keep, and one that I'd say has served my books well.

My #1 job as a thriller author is to give readers the best white-knuckle thrill ride I am capable of. I am first and foremost in the entertainment business. If that suspenseful ride is also terrifying because it hits really close to home, then I am once again doing what I am supposed to do as a thriller author.

Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that.

It's what you don't see that keeps you on the edge of your seat in any kind of film - leave it to the imagination of the viewer.

When I first started writing 'Still Missing,' I didn't actually realize I was writing a thriller. I thought it was more women's fiction, but during the many years of rewrites, I kept taking out the boring parts, and then my agent informed me that I had written a thriller.

A movie with nothing but violence is not a good movie. But one that is actually entertaining around the horror is one that people will remember and watch again and again.