You might get some serial killers who are born with a chip missing, but for the most part I don't think anyone is born bad.
How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.
I'm a sucker for a man who giggles—not a high-pitched serial-killer sort of giggle, but a lighthearted laugh.
While there are many wonderful police investigators out there doing some very fine work, the majority of the time it is not brains that catches serial killers.
It is part of politics to make things look better than they really are. What is a spin doctor but a serial euphemiser?
Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.
The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
My main dream - and I'm trying to get 'Living TV' to do it - is to go into prison and interview serial killers, rapists, murderers, psychopaths.
I'd love to adapt more contemporary novels. But there isn't really enough story and character to make a really satisfying serial, so they tend to be single dramas.
In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a serial kisser refuses to leave me.
Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in isolation.
I had known there had been a serial killer on Mount Tamalpais, and it felt so incongruous in such a beautiful, peaceful spot.
I followed him at the time and thought he was hysterical. He was the first serial killer, a new kettle of fish, because we didn't have the detection techniques in those days.
Serial novels have an unexpected effect; they hook the writer as well as the reader.
Did Anthony Hopkins really have to be a serial killer to be in 'Silence of the Lambs?,' I don't think so, no. It's called acting, people.
When people pose the question, are you “coxom”, Tom Conrad? I like to pose a question back at them: Is J.K. Rowling actually a witch? Is Thomas Harris the no. 1 serial killer in the the US, did Yann Martell really spend a lifetime eating pie? Of ...
For a brief review of our history to date shows us in a very singular role:that of serial killers.
...victims of violent crime are not always believed... [referring to victim testimony at serial killer and pedophile Marc Detroux's trial]
Like people would ever want to read books on an electronic screen.
The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.
Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating.
