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

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.

I don't think you can create effectively toward expectation. I'm not in the service business.

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

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.

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

It’s better to not have a reputation than a bad one.