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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.

Sometimes I find some movies patronizing, which I feel is the ultimate crime.

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that's what they are - they would not hesitate to act illegally to achieve profit and gain.

Crime takes the pulse of a culture. It tells us the truth about us as a species.

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

People just like a good crime story; they want to know who did it.

Crime is interesting. It's huge and fascinating, and it's what my business, TV and film, is largely based on. But the realities are tragic, and in crime drama you rarely see the pain of bereavement or any consequences. It's reduced to a chess game.

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.

There's definitely a fascination with crime stories and stories of characters acting out against authority.