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Lansdale decision directors thinking Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis are just great in that, and Don's direction is sublime. Love it, and I was glad to be a part of it, if just in spirit and Don's desire for it to be a good film and for me to be happy with it. When I first saw it I was very impressed, and it gets better with repeat viewings. Joe R. Lansdale get-better sublime desire I was very familiar with both actors, as well as Christina Hendricks and Bill Sage, Jimmi Simpson, Polly McIntosh, but the other main actors were new to me. And they were all terrific. Just amazing. Actually, Lowell Northrop optioned Savage Season from me, first book in the series, and I wrote a screenplay. Joe R. Lansdale savages actors book No system is better than another, but some are better for certain people. The person makes a system worthwhile, not the other way around. 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Lansdale underdog racism heart Different influences at different times in my career, and some have stayed with me more, some less. Chester Himes. Ralph Dennis, who wrote a series called Hardman which is a big influence on the Hap and Leonard novels. Harlan Ellison, Philip Jose Farmer, Gerald Kersh, Fredrick Brown, Robert Bloch, and I'm just getting started. I read constantly. As for the epic Western, that's Paradise Sky. Joe R. Lansdale careers epic sky As for the writers who have influenced me they are many. Hemingway, Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, William Goldman, Flannery O'Conner, Carson McCullers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and so many others. As a kid Kipling and Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Robert E. Howard. Joe R. Lansdale scott-fitzgerald rays kids I had no idea Savage Season was the beginning of a series. I wrote the second one about three years later. 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Lansdale legend legends sometimes people When you live in a small town behind the Pine Curtain, you live inside your head a lot. Joe R. Lansdale live behind small you My father had the most horrible racist rhetoric you ever heard, but he treated people all the same. I remember this rainstorm. A car broke down with these black people in it, and nobody would stop. My dad was a mechanic. He fixed the car for nothing. I remember looking at him when he got back in. He said, 'Well, they got those kids in the car.' Joe R. Lansdale you car father people I remember going to a theater once, and there was a stairway that wound its way out to the back. And I was very young, a small child, and I said to my mom, 'Why are those people going up those stairs?' And she said, 'You know, I don't know how to tell you this, I don't know how to explain it, but it won't always be that way, because it's wrong.' Joe R. Lansdale child you mom people My father was the first person to introduce me to self-defense and martial arts, which I've been doing all my life now. Joe R. Lansdale my-life me life father Ray Bradbury taught me the importance of metaphor and simile and poetic style. Joe R. Lansdale me importance taught style
