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

Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.

Most television shows are going to require an actor sign up from four to six years, but an anthology show really amounts to five or six months at the most. I thought serious actors might be attracted to that.

I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.

In the summer of 2010, I was working on a version of "True Detective" that I was thinking might be my next novel, and it was told in these two first-person voices; Cohle and Hart's voices.

If I write scripts that nobody likes, I don't think we'll be doing 'True Detective.'

For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.