. >> charlie: what's the influence of ramon chandler on you? >> i didn't get the existentialism on you? >> no one has matched it in term of genre. i think there were famous story where's chandler couldn't remember who did what to whom. he wanted to create a portrait of a man who hangs on to his own morality in a blasted moral wasteland. that to me is fairly universal and that idea of this man trying to hold on to his humanity in a world that is often inhuman strikes a cord. the mysteries don't. you can't remember some of the mysteries of chandler's each in his long novels written in the last days of his life being undone by alcoholism and there's a lot of emotion for the writing and moving and go of sentences. it's a match and he writes about l.a. in a way that i've never come across. at the time i was working on imperial bedrooms he was a big influence and reading him a lot because i recently moved back to l.a. and he comforted me in a strange way and i wanted to write like him. >> charlie: that's my point. >> it happens a lot. you read a parti