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

I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.

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

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.

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

In the summer of 2010, I had decided to get into film and TV writing, so I wrote scripts for six different ideas I had developed, and the pilot for True Detective was one of them.

Some people, no matter where they look, they see themselves.