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.

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

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.

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

Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.

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