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

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

Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die.

I've found that all weak people share a basic obsession - they fixate on the idea of satisfaction. Anywhere you go men and women are like crows drawn by shiny objects. For some folks, the shiny objects are other people, and you'd be better off developing a drug habit.

The work is where I tend to feel pressure - not so much in the reaction to it.

The Atlantic really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.

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.