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

Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.

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

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

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.

It’s better to not have a reputation than a bad one.