Many thrillers follow such reliable formulas that you can look at what's happening and guess how much longer a film has to run.
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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.
Thrillers are an enormous amount of fun for filmmakers.
The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling.
The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.
Thrillers have become all about technology and using technology. That seemed, to me, not so interesting.
Directors only have instinct to work out of, because there is no formula. Formulas don't work. Actually, if you follow a formula, you will probably end up with a bad movie.
I have never done a thriller, and it will just be really fun for me to heave and pant and run and climb and break windows and scream every once in a while.
My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.
Ultimately, a great thriller is a roller coaster ride. I like to think that's a promise I have never failed to keep, and one that I'd say has served my books well.
Every thriller needs a good bad guy; without a bad guy, there's no thriller.
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