Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die.

I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.

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

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

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.

I made True Detective like it was going to be the only thing I ever made for television. So put in everything and the kitchen sink. Everything.

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.