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

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

The ideas within this philosophy are certainly not exclusive to any writer.

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.

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.

I'm not in the service business.

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.