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.

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

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

Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.

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.

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.