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

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

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

At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory of the novel, of narrative. I liked those classes.

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

Most television shows are going to require an actor sign up from four to six years, but an anthology show really amounts to five or six months at the most. I thought serious actors might be attracted to that.

You just do the best you can, and when you're able to connect with people, and when you do, it's just incredibly gratifying.