I want to be inside Nic Pizzolattos brain.

I find that in preparation for a drama you can do a lot of character work and develop the character and know what you want to achieve and project throughout the course of the film.

Religion is something that is very well intentioned, for all intents and purposes, for everyone around the world, but sometimes it can start to get warped.

Woody [Harrelson] and I actually worked together years ago on North Country. So I felt completely at ease.

It was very fortuitous that the show [True Detective] actually spans seventeen years - so as I was getting older on the show, I was gaining weight. When I'm playing fifty, I'm ten pounds heavier! I don't know if they thought maybe I was method? But it actually worked to my benefit.

I found out a few months after we started [True Detective] that I was pregnant.

I grew up Catholic. I'm not religious now but I would say that I'm a very spiritual person and you're always in search of answers.