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

The idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something.

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

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

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

There'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.

And if we’re 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.