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.

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.

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.

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

Some people, no matter where they look, they see themselves.

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