Robert Graysmith

“I'd always been fascinated by Jack the Ripper and other unsolved crimes.”

“The Zodiac letters from 1978 on were driven to Sacramento in a cardboard box, and these letters have never been refrigerated, which, for letters going back - what? - 30 years almost is a must for DNA.”

“I think David Fincher should probably be an 18th Century Landscape painter because he has this temperament.”

“I actually was in the newsroom the moment the first Zodiac letter arrived there in 1969.”

“I usually move to wherever I'm writing about.”

“I am principally an artist. I became a political cartoonist.”

“I'm not a very logical personal.”

“You immerse yourself in it until you are part of the story. That's the only way I know how to work.”

“I had a dog named Basil, and he's the hero of the book 'Animal Firm.' Oddly enough he's a dachshund, which is not really my kind of dog.”