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.

Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.

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 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.

In the summer of 2010, I was working on a version of "True Detective" that I was thinking might be my next novel, and it was told in these two first-person voices; Cohle and Hart's voices.

As someone with a novelistic background, I just didn't have much interest in creating stories by committee. I don't think you necessarily get the best story through that approach.