You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury.

I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions.

British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.

The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling.

I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on.

I had a teacher once, grade school somewhere. Philippines, I think, because she always wore a big white hat. So it was somewhere hot. I was always twice the size of the other kids, and she used to say to me: count to ten before you get mad, Reacher. And I've counted way past ten on this one. Way past.

She's a reflection of my fascination with the diversity of America she's totally normal in New York, but a freak in Texas. There are dozens of such clashes in America.