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.

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

I don't think you can create effectively toward expectation. I'm not in the service business.

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.

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

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 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.