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.

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

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.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.

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