Ocupation: Screenwriter
Life: August 12, 1912 - October 30, 1997
Birthday: August 12
Death: October 30
When I was making these damned pictures, I never knew about film noir. If you had asked me about it then, I probably would have pointed to something like Bill Wellman's The Ox Bow Incident, the best Western I ever saw and very much in the style of film noir I don't care if it's a mystery story, a Western, or the story of Julius Caesar. To me it's the emotion, the lies, the double-cross that defines what kind of drama it is.
topic: Drama, Lying, Style, Film Noir