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All the way back in 1999, when I first stumbled upon the idea of a project tracking John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson and all the major Depression-era bank robbers, I thought the subject was too big to be a single book. Instead, with a friend's help, I pitched the idea as a miniseries to HBO. To my amazement, they bought it.

— Bryan Burrough

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved all his books.

— Jo Nesbo

You need a good James Clavell novel, I think, to make a good miniseries.

— Noah Hawley

I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that.

— Edward G. Robinson

What was always interesting about Thomas Harris' books is they were a wonderful hybridization of a crime thriller and a horror movie.

— Bryan Fuller

There's this movie, 'Zero Dark Thirty' about the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Some have complained that too many 'secrets' were dished out by the intelligence and special operations communities to director Kathryn Bigelow, screenwriter Mark Boal and their crew, part of a broader pattern of using intelligence for political effect.

— Michael Hayden

I couldn't ever write a straight crime novel: there'd be an intrusion of weirdness at some point.

— Alastair Reynolds

I read that book, 'Lonesome Dove,' and I told my agent that they were gonna make a miniseries out of it and I wanted to be in it. I didn't care what part.

— Barry Corbin

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.

— Richard House

I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.

— Kate Mosse

✗Opposing Perspectives

My first book, about Ruby Ridge, was made into a miniseries on CBS in 1996, and since then, I've dabbled in Hollywood, pitched a few things, sold a couple of screenplays and a pilot that I wrote with a buddy from Spokane, flirted with seeing 'Citizen Vince' as a film, and most recently, adapted 'The Financial Lives of the Poets' as a script.

— Jess Walter