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

The Atlantic really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.

I read The Conspiracy Against the Human Race and found it incredibly powerful writing. For me as a reader, it was less impactful as philosophy than as one writers ultimate confessional: an absolute horror story, where the self is the monster.

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.'

You can't really judge an actor's abilities by their career, because the business is going to pigeonhole people into whatever turns a profit, and no artist is less in charge of how their work is presented than an actor, the appeal of Vince was that within a great naturalism, he can convey fierce intelligence, complex emotion, and a real warmth married to a real edge, strength and vulnerability and danger and humor. There are essential contradictions at work that makes him fascinating to watch.

Some people, no matter where they look, they see themselves.