I wanted to make a redemptive thriller that didn't end with some kind of big, crazy shootout and blood spill, but more of a collision of ideas and a discussion of ethics.
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I'd love to make a thriller.
The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.
For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.
Anybody who sits down to write, and they think 'thriller,' maybe shouldn't be thinking that way. Maybe we should be thinking 'novel,' maybe 'thriller' way in the background, but that these are real people to whom things are happening. It just happens to be a hell of an exciting story.
When I started writing the third book, 'The Kill,' the intention was just to write a thriller, a crime novel for myself, really, in which there would be no body, no solution - where you would look at an event from different people's perspectives.
I've been thinking of doing a sci-fi thriller or a sci-fi noir, if that's possible.
I think I'll stick with psychological thrillers.
Thrillers have become all about technology and using technology. That seemed, to me, not so interesting.
My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done.
I wanted to play around with the format, really tear it to pieces and shake it up. For example, if Mitch saves someone from drowning, and that person then goes out and releases a virus that kills a million people. Imagine the moral implications of that.