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.

It’s better to not have a reputation than a bad one.

You can't really judge an actor's abilities by their career, because the business is going to pigeonhole people into whatever turns a profit, and no artist is less in charge of how their work is presented than an actor, the appeal of Vince was that within a great naturalism, he can convey fierce intelligence, complex emotion, and a real warmth married to a real edge, strength and vulnerability and danger and humor. There are essential contradictions at work that makes him fascinating to watch.

Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.

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.

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

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.