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

My ultimare goal is, without illusion and without sentimentality, merely by telling the truth as I see it, to break your heart. If I can break your heart and cause your awareness to expand to include another person's experience, even a fictional person's experience, and to inhabit for a moment their sorrow and suffering, then I think it expands us as people.

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

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

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.

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

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