Fragen noir an ...
... den Schriftsteller Jason Starr
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Name?
Jason Starr
What are you doing besides writing?
I’ve been writing full-time for about ten years. Aside from crime fiction, I write screenplays, and lately graphic novels (The Chill, coming from DC/Vertigo) and comics.
Film released in the year of your birth?
Hmm, Bonny and Clyde might’ve missed it by a year or so, but let’s go with that one.
What books can we find in your bookshelf?
Lots of crime fiction, literary fiction, biographies and graphic novels. Some crime favorites are Elmore Leonard, Patricia Highsmith, Jim Thompson, Ken Bruen, and Charles Willeford.
Some of your favorite film noirs?
The Killing, Pick-up on South Street, Double Indemnity, Laura, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Rififi
And films beside noir?
Love Ian McEwan’s novels.
Internet?
Questions noir - Your life a film noir
1. Which would be your part in the movie?
The crime boss, leader of the gang. As a writer, I love to do plotting so....
2. Your nickname in the movie?
Jazzy Jay.
3. Which author (living or dead) should write the script?
Hey, I’d have to write it.
4. Famous quote in your movie? (Exmaple: Scarface = The World Is Yours, White Heat = Made It Ma, Top Of The World)
It all went to hell.
5. Shot in black and white or in color?
Color.
6. Soundtrack by …
Lou Reed.
7. Which femme fatale would lead you to your doom? (Which hard-boiled noir-hero would lead you to your doom?)
Linda Fiorentino would totally suck me in...and have to go with Sterling Hayden in The Killing. A horse racing plot? I'd get sucked right in.
8. Your getaway car?
A taxi cab.
9. Your weapons?
Nun-chucks.
10. Book for your prison sentence?
Crime and Punishment.
11. Finally: Epigraph on your tombstone?
Here lies the author of STALKING
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