The idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something.
Nic PizzolattoI was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.
Nic PizzolattoI find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.
Nic PizzolattoThere's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because to some degree, I projected upon it.
Nic PizzolattoAnd if weโre talking about hard-boiled detectives, too, what could be more hardboiled than the worldview of Ligotti or Cioran? They make the grittiest of crime writers seem like dilettantes. Next to The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Mickey Spillane seems about as hard-boiled as bubble gum.
Nic Pizzolatto