Roger Hobbs Raps Cicero
ROGER HOBBS ON VIDEO
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ON CRIME WRITING
"Everybody is obsessed with building a public persona. So much of the face we put on for the world is just an act. By constantly performing, we try to jam ourselves into a culture where we might not really fit."
FILM NOIR
"Film noir has a really terrific dialogue style. The intense mood, shading and setting combines with the banter that I wanted to make modern in my dialogue."
ON CRIMINALITY
"I don't seem like the criminal type. But I am, and so are you."
FILM NOIR
"Film noir has a really terrific dialogue style. The intense mood, shading and setting combines with the banter that I wanted to make modern in my dialogue."
THE RESEARCH PROCESS
On the deep web, on the secret web, on the encrypted web, I found websites where I could chat with hit men. You can buy everything online -- from sex, to guns, to bombs, to poisons, to every possible drug you could imagine - even antibiotics."