Crime Story Quotes

I'm just an entertainer. In a way crime stories are boring. A crime's been committed and at the end you know it will be solved. So you've got to make the story interesting besides it just being a plot. And that's why character matters, why you've got to make the characters interesting.

I've always really liked murder mysteries and thrillers, and great to be able to be actually part of one.

'Intrigue: Murder In The Lucky Holiday Hotel' is a podcast put together by the BBC's Carrie Gracie that investigates the story behind the death of British businessman Neil Heywood in the Chinese city of Chongqing in 2011.

The first time I got locked up, I was in Walmart stealing BB guns.

You need a crime, a detective, and the solution.

After The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, the audience would like to know where, when, and who arrests Hannibal Lecter for the first time. This is the story of Red Dragon.

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

Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.

'The Silence of the Lambs' is my favourite book, favourite film.

...and then a murder mystery will occur.

In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.

I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings

I've always wanted to play a hard-boiled gumshoe, as they say.

Crime fiction is a way of satisfying that nosy need to know.

'Unforgotten' was a bit of a no-brainer. I'm a big fan of crime dramas, but often the 'investigation' part goes much too smoothly - and you don't get that with this.

I didn't expect anything crazy to happen from 'True Detective.'

I liked the idea of a whodunit revolving around a marriage.

With 'The Big Lebowski,' we were really consciously thinking about doing a Raymond Chandler story, as much as it's about L.A.

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

In the actual story I got with the Bonannos, but I had dealings with other crime families and other criminals, using the Bonannos as my credibility.

The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western.

One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled.

The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel.

The Fall of the House of Zeus is a riveting American saga of ambition, cunning, greed, corruption, high life and low life in the land of Faulkner and Grisham. These are good ol' boys gone bad with flair, private jets, and lots of cash to carry. Curtis Wilkie, a child of the South and a reporter's reporter, is the perfect match for this wild ride.

The best crime stories are always about the crime and its consequences - you know, 'Crime And Punishment' is the classic. Where you have the crime, and its consequences are the story, but considering the crime and the consequences makes you think about the society in which the crime takes place, if you see what I mean.