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

I knew the past wasn't real. It was only an idea, and the thing I'd wanted to touch, to brush against, the feeling I couldn't name - it just didn't exist. It was only an idea, too.

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

I read The Conspiracy Against the Human Race and found it incredibly powerful writing. For me as a reader, it was less impactful as philosophy than as one writers ultimate confessional: an absolute horror story, where the self is the monster.

As human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by — so you’d better be careful what stories you tell yourself.

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.

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.