Quotes about Detectives

I don't take much stock of detectives in novels - chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them. That's just inspiration: not business.

It is always reasonably easy to get conversation going in a pub, and it will be a black day for detectives when beer is abolished. After

With 'Black Rain,' I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives, and I spent a lot of time with different brokers on 'Wall Street.' It helps get the rhythm of the piece and the tone, and how overplayed or underplayed it might be. That's also the magic of movies: You get to hang out and live these different lives.