I knew the past wasn't real. It was only an idea, and the thing I'd wanted to touch, to brush against, the feeling I couldn't name - it just didn't exist. It was only an idea, too.

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

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

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

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.

Most television shows are going to require an actor sign up from four to six years, but an anthology show really amounts to five or six months at the most. I thought serious actors might be attracted to that.

You can't really judge an actor's abilities by their career, because the business is going to pigeonhole people into whatever turns a profit, and no artist is less in charge of how their work is presented than an actor, the appeal of Vince was that within a great naturalism, he can convey fierce intelligence, complex emotion, and a real warmth married to a real edge, strength and vulnerability and danger and humor. There are essential contradictions at work that makes him fascinating to watch.