Alexander Chow-Stuart: Bogart and Bergman in Shadows and Light

Extract from The Guardian Questionnaire with Alexander

Stuart, compiled by Rosanna Greenstreet for The Guardian

newspaper in Britain:

What is your greatest happiness?

Being home with my wife and children.

What is the trait you most deplore in others?

Hatred.

What do you consider the most overrated virtue?

I'm more interested in vice.

What would your motto be?

Breathe slowly and enjoy.

How would you like to die?

With a sense of bliss.

Do you believe in life after death?

I believe in continuity.

How would you like to be remembered?

With a smile.

What is the most important lesson life has taught you?

To love.

Screenplays

Stuart's screenplays include: The War Zone for Tim Roth/Film4; Bitten for Angelina Jolie (Warner Bros); Head Shots for Jodie Foster with Lorenzo di Bonaventura producing (Paramount); Under The Skin, for director Jonathan Glazer (Nick Wechsler Productions/Film4); an adaptation of Toby Barlow's remarkable book, Sharp Teeth, for Film4; Whiteout, originally for Reese Witherspoon/Universal (now Kate Beckinsale/Dark Castle Entertainment/Warner Bros); Chinese Wall for producers Georgina Townsley and Alexandra Milchan with Clark Johnson directing; an adaptation of Keith Scribner's kidnapping novel, The GoodLife, for Film4; and an adaptation of Bill Buford's wild tale of soccer hooligans, Among The Thugs for Kiefer Sutherland.

Stuart also served as executive producer of Nicolas Roeg's Insignificance, which brought together a fictionalized Marilyn Monroe, Albert Einstein, Joe DiMaggio and Senator Joe McCarthy, on one hot and humid night in New York.

Books

Stuart's books include The War Zone (which "won and lost" Britain's prestigious Whitbread Prize for Best Novel - now the Costa Book Awards - amid controversy among the judges), Tribes, Life On Mars (which inspired the television documentary, The End of America), Five And A Half Times Three (written with Ann Totterdell, about the death from cancer of their five-and-a-half-year-old son, Joe Buffalo), and the children's books, Joe, Jo-Jo And The Monkey Masks and Henry And The Sea (written with Joe Buffalo Stuart).

Other Work

Before moving to the United States, Stuart lived in London and Brighton, England. During the 1990s, he moved to Miami Beach, where he wrote Life On Mars, and taught screenwriting at the University of Miami. In 1997, he was commissioned by the Miami Art Museum to create an artwork, filmloop/fragments, to accompany a sculpture installation by the Polish artist, Magdalena Abakanowicz.

Stuart now lives by a lake in Sonora, between Yosemite and San Francisco, with his wife, Charong Chow, and their two children, a son born in 2004 and a daughter born in 2009. On September 22 2006, Stuart was sworn in as an American citizen. In 2007, he informally adopted the surname Chow-Stuart to celebrate the fusion of both family names in his children's surname.

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