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.

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

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

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

For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.

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

You can't really judge an actor's abilities by their career, because the business is going to pigeonhole people into whatever turns a profit, and no artist is less in charge of how their work is presented than an actor, the appeal of Vince was that within a great naturalism, he can convey fierce intelligence, complex emotion, and a real warmth married to a real edge, strength and vulnerability and danger and humor. There are essential contradictions at work that makes him fascinating to watch.