The entertainment is in the presentation.
John McTiernan
You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas.
Before I did any action movies, I did a couple of thrillers. That's hung around for me.
To find a script that works with provocative ideas is hard to find.
In a thriller, the camera's an active narrator, or can be.
Thrillers are an enormous amount of fun for filmmakers.
