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.

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.

As human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by — so you’d better be careful what stories you tell yourself.

You just do the best you can, and when you're able to connect with people, and when you do, it's just incredibly gratifying.

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

And if we’re talking about hard-boiled detectives, too, what could be more hardboiled than the worldview of Ligotti or Cioran? They make the grittiest of crime writers seem like dilettantes. Next to The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Mickey Spillane seems about as hard-boiled as bubble gum.

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