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

The ideas within this philosophy are certainly not exclusive to any writer.

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.

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

If landscape is a character for me, then it helps if I'm familiar with it and I already have a take on it.

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.

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.