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.
If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they’re all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That’s what’s called American fiction these days.
I had known there had been a serial killer on Mount Tamalpais, and it felt so incongruous in such a beautiful, peaceful spot.
For a long time, it seemed as if podcasting was a male realm, but no longer. Sure, there are lots of men doing podcasts, but women are voicing a lot of the form’s biggest hits. ‘Serial,’ the podcast that made podcasts a phenomenon, was narrated by a woman.
Initially my makeup for the character of Ramola Sikand in TV serial ‘Kahin Kisi Roz’ raised eyebrows of many who were of the opinion that my looks were too gaudy. But soon I was appreciated by the viewers as well as the industry.
I played the lead in ‘Kutumb,’ my debut serial. But after that if I had been stubborn asking for lead roles, just a few shows would have come my way.
If I were to become a serial glitter-bomber, it would seriously impact my ability to get close enough to candidates to ask them a stupid question.
My first novel, ‘Leaving Atlanta,’ took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.
I’m definitely a serial entrepreneur and a serial snacker. And when it comes to snacks, I’m more of a salty snacker, though I’ve been known to have a craving for sweets from time to time.
Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you.
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.
I’ve never been someone who dates all that much – I’m more of a serial monogamist.
Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations.
I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.
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.
Mum’s serial misbehavior over the years had driven me, despairing, to write her scolding – occasionally scalding letters.
I was a serial monogamist.
Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught.
Directing the television serial, ‘Thoda Sa Aasman,’ was a good learning experience and I can empathize better with producers.
IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom’s Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.
Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written from the viewpoint of a serial killer.
The interesting thing about doing serial television is that the character is growing separate from you, the character and the show are growing, and you get to observe that and participate with it in a way that I think is actually really exciting for an actor.
In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
I’m a serial monogamist.
Some of the best movies made about crime are those where the crime solver can get inside the head of the serial killer, and those are the techniques we use in C.S.I.
They’re making me out to be a serial marrying person or something. I’m laughing at that.
An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
Since 1966, hundreds of books have been published that follow murderers along their paths of destruction. Every serial killer, it seems, now has a biographer or two.
It is part of politics to make things look better than they really are. What is a spin doctor but a serial euphemiser?
Smart people tend to enjoy thinking about a lot of things at once. I’d say entrepreneurs should be serial monogamists; do one thing at a time until you make sufficient progress and then move on.
Liberal censors are the worst. I don’t remember any trouble with ‘Serial Mom’ or ‘Cecil B. Demented’ or any of them. Except ‘Cry Baby.’
But I am not a serial dater or anything like that. Maybe when lockdown is over, I can do speed dating for weeks on end!
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.
Every vote should carry a serial number, so that responsibility for harmful or careless use of the vote can be traced. Concealed voting should be outlawed.
Before sequels became the most reliable way to make a buck, Bond set the standard for lavish serial adventures. Before Hollywood found gold in multimillion-dollar adaptations of comic-book characters – in the Superman, Batman and Spider-Man blockbusters – Bond was the movies’ first big-budget franchise superhero.
Whether it is a film, television serial or web series, there are three basic things that I consider when I give a nod for a project. Firstly, is the story bringing any effect on my mind. Secondly, the integrity of the makers, and how it will impact the society once the story goes on the public platform.
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.
When I came to Mumbai, my rakhi brother Vivek Jain showed my portfolio to the producer of Bidaai,’ Rajan Shahi. He liked my photographs and asked me to join the serial at the earliest.
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