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

Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in 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.

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

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because to some degree, I projected upon it.

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 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.