I don't think you can create effectively toward expectation. I'm not in the service business.

As someone with a novelistic background, I just didn't have much interest in creating stories by committee. I don't think you necessarily get the best story through that approach.

The idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something.

I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.

In the summer of 2010, I had decided to get into film and TV writing, so I wrote scripts for six different ideas I had developed, and the pilot for True Detective was one of them.

You just do the best you can, and when you're able to connect with people, and when you do, it's just incredibly gratifying.

We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction.