Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.

I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.

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

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.

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.

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

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