My ultimare goal is, without illusion and without sentimentality, merely by telling the truth as I see it, to break your heart. If I can break your heart and cause your awareness to expand to include another person's experience, even a fictional person's experience, and to inhabit for a moment their sorrow and suffering, then I think it expands us as people.
Nic PizzolattoThe Atlantic really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.
Nic PizzolattoThe idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something.
Nic PizzolattoI knew the past wasn't real. It was only an idea, and the thing I'd wanted to touch, to brush against, the feeling I couldn't name - it just didn't exist. It was only an idea, too.
Nic PizzolattoWhatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me.
Nic Pizzolatto