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

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

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 don't think you can create effectively toward expectation. I'm not in the service business.

You just do the best you can, and when you're able to connect with people, and when you do, it's just incredibly gratifying.

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

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