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The truth of the matter is, you lose a parent to murder when you're 10 years old, and in fact at the time of the murder you hate your lost parent, my mother in my case.

I saw a man killed in front of my eyes just before my eighth birthday.

I have not killed anyone. They will not let me.

I was an only child with a lot of time to kill. I suspect a lot of writers are only children, or only children become writers because it's a way of being alone.

There are all sorts of ways of murdering a person or at least his soul, and that's something no police in the world can spot.

Very few of us playing a murderer will actually have killed someone.

Well, when you're the youngest of five, parents kind of lose interest more and more through the children. I think my eldest brother was under loads of pressure to do something amazing with his life, but by the time I came around they were like, 'Well, let's hope he doesn't kill a guy.'

I don't believe in murder.

I haven't killed anyone on television in years and years. Must have been twenty something years.

According to FBI statistics for 2008, only 22 percent of murder victims were killed by strangers. More than 30 percent were slain by family members, boyfriends, and girlfriends. Nearly half of all murders were committed by friends, neighbors, and casual acquaintances.