I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting!
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I've been a fan of noir films since I was in high school.
One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to embed them in twisty plot lines.
Noir focuses on the criminal mind, not a whodunit: more why they did it and will they get away with it. The abnormal psychology is what fascinates me rather than the puzzle-solving aspect.
Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir.
When I first started writing the books in the 1980s, all of the female detectives were flawed in some way because they were based on noir characters.
I think a film noir demands a beginning and an end.
My manager sent me the first two scripts for 'True Detective,' and I just thought they were so interesting and that the world they were depicting was so titillating to me.
I enjoy setting the scene and coming up with interesting frames. 'True Detective' was a very hands-on set.
I think there are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there's insecurity, collapse of financial systems - that's where film noir always hits fertile ground.
That was certainly true the first time, when I did Body Heat, the first movie that I directed. I was looking for a vessel to tell a certain kind of story, and I was a huge fan of Film Noir, and what I liked about it was that it was so extreme in style.
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