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

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.

I made True Detective like it was going to be the only thing I ever made for television. So put in everything and the kitchen sink. Everything.

Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.

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

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

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