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

Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me.

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

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

We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction.

If landscape is a character for me, then it helps if I'm familiar with it and I already have a take on it.