'Homeland' is a thriller with a lot of cloak and dagger spy stuff, which is one of the things that makes it so much fun.

- Adam Rayner

That's what everyone said attracted them to Lantana - I call it an adult mystery, because it's not a thriller in the sense of that other way, but it is a mystery.

- Barbara Hershey

Well, if you're writing a thriller, you have to have your character in mortal jeopardy on page 1 or it's not a thriller.

- Don Winslow

It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.

- Ed Wood

My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done.

- Harry Mathews

The Strokes can play anything. They could play 'Thriller,' and it would just sound like 'Thriller' as played by the Strokes.

- Julian Casablancas

For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.

- Jeffery Deaver

'Jack Ryan' is a very fast-paced, very contemporary, very action-driven thriller.

- Kenneth Branagh

I'd been a thriller reader all my life.

- Lee Child

It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.

- Muhammad Ali

This film is what it is. It's a campy thriller horror movie where you go and have fun. With these types of films, you can't take it too seriously. They are what they are.

- Morris Chestnut

It's not often a thriller keeps me wound up as well as 'Headhunters' did. I knew I was being manipulated and didn't care. It was a pleasure to see how well it was being done.

- Roger Ebert

I'd love to make a thriller.

- Sam Taylor-Johnson

People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.

- Scott Turow

I did turn down 'The Virgin Suicides.' I talked to the producers about it, and I just honestly told them that I didn't get it. Is it supposed to be funny, is it a thriller, what is it?

- Terry Zwigoff