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.

In the summer of 2010, I had decided to get into film and TV writing, so I wrote scripts for six different ideas I had developed, and the pilot for True Detective was one of them.

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.

Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.

Some people, no matter where they look, they see themselves.

I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.

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