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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.

I think from an early age I was aware of how a camera can tell a story, how a movie camera can affect how the narrative is told.

The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.

A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.

Thrillers are an enormous amount of fun for filmmakers.

People are fascinated, for whatever reason, by human drama, and the idea that cameras are capturing ambient stories.

When you shoot a movie, the camera is always taking, taking, taking and not giving anything back.

With a thriller, you're going to have your red herrings, as different suspects are thrown up as possible culprits. You can only explore that for so long - if you do that more than a few times, it starts to get a little redundant.