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.

It’s better to not have a reputation than a bad one.

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.

For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.

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'm not in the service business.