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

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

My ultimare goal is, without illusion and without sentimentality, merely by telling the truth as I see it, to break your heart. If I can break your heart and cause your awareness to expand to include another person's experience, even a fictional person's experience, and to inhabit for a moment their sorrow and suffering, then I think it expands us as people.

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

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

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.

I've found that all weak people share a basic obsession - they fixate on the idea of satisfaction. Anywhere you go men and women are like crows drawn by shiny objects. For some folks, the shiny objects are other people, and you'd be better off developing a drug habit.